From: Mary Yugo
* Have you seen such a paper for hot fusion? They have run through almost $20 billion by last count, so why no 'killer paper' or even a convincing experiment that points to financial justification? LOL. > MY: Let me see if I understand this. If hot fusion doesn't work that means that cold fusion does? How does that happen? Are you always this flippant with your logical deductions - when faced with the inadequacy of the same old lame argument that we have been hearing for weeks? I suppose you realize that fewer and fewer participants here are taking your seriously anymore - so why not play the fool. What it means, of course, is that getting clean cost effective energy from non-combustion, non fission sources is extremely difficult, and requires proper funding levels. Conventional science has not only failed society badly in this regard, many of the recipients of public largess have actively conspired to keep funding away from alternative solutions. We cannot really expect the 'killer paper' from LENR without a fair proportion of that $20 billion. . but we might get lucky and get it anyway, and sooner than anyone thinks. The paper cited in the prior post should have opened up the floodgates of funding - as it is almost there - instead you find the opposite happening: a good research paper leads to a "circle the wagons mentality" for a few thousand high level physicists, who can see their cushy 6 figure incomes and stress-free jobs going away, not just away - but the funds being transferred to "uncredentialed" inventors and engineers. It has been almost a class war type of thing since 1989 - with the Ivory Tower, Ivy League set realizing that they are basically unemployable in industry or Public Universities - where performance counts - at anywhere near their current compensation packages - if the alternatives succeed. Jones
