Mary Yugo <[email protected]> wrote:
> I can't believe that Miley can't get $5K or even $100K of funds a year. > That's chump change for any large company. Well, he and I have been beating the bushes trying to get funding. Nothing yet. If you know a company with that kind of chump change, please have them contact Miley. The thing you have to realize is, there is enormous opposition to cold fusion because of academic politics. Experiments have not been funded since 1990. A professor or someone in the DoE who requests funding or even talks about cold fusion will be harassed and probably fired. There is zero chance of success. Why sacrifice your career for nothing? Miley and his grad students are doing this for free, in their spare time. It is "bootlegged." I do not think they will have any more spare time in the future. They are getting other jobs and commitments. > And you say he can give a convincing demo. I don't get it. Why > doesn't SAIC for example, jump on it? > Feel free to suggest it to them. Akira Shirakawa <[email protected]> wrote: > Would he really be able to replicate sustained kW-level excess heat (of > course, with watt-level input) with just $50,000 in funding or so? Serious > question. I do not know if they can produce that much heat. I suppose that would depend on how much material Ames N. L. can supply. Since Ames as part of the DOE the whole thing may be cut off tomorrow, when someone at headquarters finds out. I doubt anyone else can produce the material. That's the hard part. Although Miley said he is doing a lot of the post-production work himself now. I do not see what difference it makes whether you get 100 W or 5000 W. Heat is heat. As long as it can be measured with high confidence who cares how much? The key thing is that it is controllable and stable. Once you have that scaling up is a trivial matter. - Jed
