Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]> wrote: As I said at ICCF17, in the whole history of the field, we have spent >> roughly as much money as people spend on semiconductor R&D in a single day. >> I repeat: by the standards of industrial R&D, cold fusion is one day old. >> > > Brilliant comment, Jed. >
Thanks. That is one of the reasons I am optimistic. I do not suppose that money has magical powers to create breakthroughs, but I know there are many promising unexplored avenues. Any cold fusion researcher can think of fruitful ways to spend millions of dollars. They all have dozens of great ideas they cannot try for lack of funding. If we let thousands of researchers do what they think is best, someone will succeed. Even if Storms and McKubre and the others now at work fail, others will enter the field. Someone will hit it. Most will fail, but that does not matter. There is no doubt that cold fusion can be scaled up. It *has been* scaled up, by F&P in France and in a few other places. - Jed
