>From Ed Storms,
> I agree, but we have been hoping for 23 years and counting. > But as you say, hope is all we have left, and Rossi. :-) I realize this was said somewhat in jest. However, considering the recent Pop Sci article on Mr. Rossi... particularly the part where NASA invited Rossi to show his stuff to them... Jeepers! What a train wreck that was! At present I think the last thing I would suggest DoE might want to look into is Andrea Rossi. I would not trust that any of them would be capable of looking past Rossi's flamboyant persona... A loose cannon extraordinaire. ...and this, of course, assumes that Rossi actually HAS stumbled across the ability to occasionally generate a startling amount of unexplainable heat, which to the best of my knowledge has yet to have been independently verified. > We need a wealthy person who is wise and smart to donate > enough money to a study of the subject that is designed > to answer the critical questions. Unfortunately, people in > the field can not even agree on the critical questions. Sadly, why gamble investment capital on a still unproven technology when another energy bonanza that involves completely proven technology is about to dramatically change the surface of the planet. It is ironic to say this but the United States is on the verge of becoming the next Saudi Arabia within 5 - 15 years due to the wonders (aka horrors) of fracking, and other advanced technologies that will now allow us to extract huge vast reservoirs of fossil fuels in ways that had been impossible to do not all that long ago. No wonder Mitt Romney desperately wanted to win the election. He knew what was coming down the pipe line. What interesting coattails he would have been able to ride all the way to 2016 and beyond, and he wouldn't have to have done a damn thing to get reelected. Of course, Obama knew about the coming fossil fuel bonanza too. As such, Obama can afford to play lip service to all sorts of AE concerns while knowing full well the fact that he has secured a guaranteed way of making the United States independent of foreign/Arabian oil in just a few years. He's got to be feeling pretty chipper about that. Of course we are probably going to lose the state of Florida to the fishes, and Oklahoma and Nebraska may soon hosts the next American deserts that curious tourists will visit on their vacation. Sure. those things might concern some republicans (and perhaps even a few democrats too) particularly when it comes to voting time again. but what the hey! If it happens, it happens. It wuzn't our fault. No! Really! Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
