How about creating a foundation for distributing grants to researchers in the field of LENR? Of course the founding would come from private individuals and institutions. Would that make sense?
mic 2011/12/18 Horace Heffner <[email protected]>: > > On Dec 18, 2011, at 8:22 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > > Daniel Rocha <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Jed, among LENR researchers, who is not old, or very old? > > > The ones who are dead. > > Only old people can do this. For a young researcher cold fusion would be > career suicide. Even talking about it. She would be fired and would never > get another job. Even Bockris was nearly fired. Miles -- a distinguished > fellow of the institute -- was reassigned as a stock room clerk. Mizuno was > told he would never be promoted unless he renounced it. He never was. Nearly > every researcher I know has been subjected to harassment, bullying, > threats, sabotage, and so on. > > - Jed > > > > One lasting achievement of Rossi's genius at generating free publicity may > have been to bring young people into the field. Once it becomes clear in > the mind that nuclear reactions triggered by chemical potentials, without > nuclear waste, is a reality, however impractical at this point, and the > desperately needed benefit to society such a process can have, if > successfully optimized and engineered, the field has more lure than sirens > singing and combing their hair sitting on a rock. > > The timing of all this is unfortunate. Should an ignominious failure of > Rossi' s venture occur, following the Solyndra, Inc. bankruptcy and scandal, > that will likely result in the ferreting out and dismantling, unfunding, of > any LENR work in the government or academia whatsoever. Perhaps that is > already underway. > > Despite the lure, if no proven major practical development occurs, the field > will be once again be left to old retired folks, self funded personal time > efforts, wildcat businesses, dilettantes, hobbyists, and frauds. > > If LENR research is suppressed in the US then the US will be the worse off > for it. > > The opposite approach is justified. As I wrote on page 36 of: > > http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/CFnuclearReactions.pdf > > "There are clearly extensive possibilities for the exploration of LENR. The > best way to do so is through use of an interdisciplinary team, backed by > extensive laboratory and computing facilities. Expertise in > electrochemistry, nanotechnology, materials science, particle physics, > supercomputer simulation, and a wide variety of engineering fields is > required. The best lattices and operating conditions are not likely to be > found by Edisonian search, but through a combined computational > experimental approach which is team directed." > > Best regards, > > Horace Heffner > http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/ > >
