Horace, Your plan has a much broader scope IMHO, would be nice some politician were able to understand it and apply it...
mic 2011/12/19 Horace Heffner <[email protected]>: > > 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/ > > > >
