Zell, Chris <[email protected]> wrote: > > 'Free' energy will stimulate economies temporarily as new products are > eagerly bought - however, in the longer term, it will deflate > general economic demand in a manner similar to what the internet did for > recorded music, movies and pornography (!). >
I agree it will have this deflationary effect on energy. Whether it will affect other things that way I do not know. > Once the emergence is established, there will be evidence of public grief > by various enviromentalists and climate change activists. Only a few will > observe what this teaches about their real motives were. > No doubt there will be some environmentalists who oppose cold fusion. In the book, I quoted some who were bemoaning the prospect in 1989. However, there will be many other environmentalists who are thrilled by cold fusion, including me. I predict that environmentalists and climate change activists in favor of cold fusion will greatly outnumber those who are opposed. Granted, I would be more confident of this prediction if some of the major environmentalists had helped cold fusion up until now. Alas they have not. For that matter many of the industrial corporations which are bound to make huge sums of money from cold fusion have done nothing to assist. - Jed
