Jed and Ed! Like I have pointed out earlier, you will get plasma fusion budget for cold fusion research in no time using crowd-funding. It is easy to get few million dollars to finance initial experiments and if there is any positive or even suggestive results to be published, crowd funding potential will crow exponentially after each published paper.
* I have recently become huge fan of wind power. Therefore I welcome Obama's initiative. It is very inspiring to think how drastically industrial production must adapt to the chaotic energy production conditions that wind power will provide. Factories must be redesigned from up to bottom, so that they can scale up the production according the electricity price. But I think that automation will help adapting. Wind power is great, because it is very cheap, if and only if power hungry society can efficiently adapt into changing power supply conditions. If it cannot, then wind power is very expensive. There is also one often neglected detail. First generation wind turbines are relatively expensive and they require rare earth metals. However second generation wind turbines are very very cheap because the bulk of the materials, such as tower, rotor hub and neodymium, can be fully recycled. Therefore effective life span for wind turbine is something over 40 years, not 25 years. This means that the electricity produced is dirt cheap compared to to thermal electric sources such as coal and nuclear. —Jouni Sent from my iPad On Jan 22, 2013, at 12:58 AM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Obama emphasized energy again in the Inauguration Address. Saying, for > example: > > "We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to > do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny > the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating > impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms. The > path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult." > > As much as I support alternative energy, it galls me when I hear Obama say > that. I just wish there was some way we could bring cold fusion to his > attention. If we could have 0.01% of plasma fusion funding it would do > wonders. Alas we are drowned out by the noise from others, and by the > skeptics. > > Energy was a large part of his Recovery and Reinvestment act. This article is > somewhat political but it describes this: > > http://failuremag.com/feature/article/the-new-new-deal/ > > - Jed
