I agree with Mark, People will not have to learn LENR, they will just replace/upgrade their existing HVAC equipment with a device that happens to produce electricity also and reduces their bill - no brainer.
Information access is much easier today with the internet and will aid in the proliferation of the technology. LENR requires less infrastructure than cell phones and there are already 6 billion of them in the world, all within the last 30 years or so. On Saturday, July 21, 2012, Jed Rothwell wrote: > MarkI-ZeroPoint <[email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > '[email protected]');>> wrote: > > >> I couldn’t disagree more… seriously, hundreds or thousands of years? ** >> ** >> >> ** ** >> >> Once the scientific community (both academic and corporate) realizes that >> a whole new field of science is being born, they will dive in to understand >> it and engineer it in ways we can’t even imagine . . . >> > > Probably they will, but people do not think or learn any faster today than > they did in the past. The pace of progress is no faster than it ever was. > It is still governed mainly by funerals. > > The serious study of chemistry began around 1650. It did not reach > fruition with chemical engineering until the late 19th century. > Transmutation with cold fusion is still at the stage chemistry was when > Robert Boyle published a book saying there are more than four elements, > "The Skeptical Chemist" (1661): > > http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22914/22914-h/22914-h.htm > > People nowadays have the notion that technology, society and the world in > general are changing at a faster pace than ever before. People who believe > this have not read enough history. They do not realize how quickly things > changed in earlier eras such as: > > England after colonization in America began; > > England during the industrial revolution; > > The U.S. from 1850 to 1870; > > Japan during the Meiji era. > > People such as my parents or Julian Schwinger, who lived from around 1914 > to around 2000, saw much more fundamental change than people born in the > mid-20th century have seen. That is why they were more open minded and > willing to believe in claims such as cold fusion. The present era is one of > technical and scientific stagnation, not progress. > > Even popular culture such as fashion and music have stagnated. See: "You > Say You Want a Devolution" (great title!): > > http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2012/01/prisoners-of-style-201201 > > - Jed > >
