On Dec 18, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Michele Comitini wrote:
The problem is in the methodology used to determine who gets the
money.
As many other foundations do.
If someone does not agree with a foundation politics, then he can make
a better one.
The good thing of LENR is that however expensive the research is, it
is to a level that it can avoid state/national funding, and that is
Rossi's lesson.
Having competition on how to manage funding? would happen for sure,
but that would be a positive thing, as always when there is fair
competition.
The important thing is to get started at some point, since the
existing public institutions fail to see the benefits and since we
know that it is something that if realized would benefit all, we must
take our responsibilities at some point.
mic
Still some guidelines are required, and money needs to be
compartmentalised. Such an institution should not give all its money
to one person or group, for example. Grants should not all be in the
same size range - many should be small, some large. Larger grants
should be for follow-on work based on successful work. Considerations
need to be made for fund investing.
Here is a funding plan I put together for more commercially oriented
research and development of renewable energy in general:
http://mtaonline.net/~hheffner/LegacyPlan.pdf
This is not appropriate for LENR work only, but provides some ideas
about what kinds of considerations need to be made.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
