On Jan 21, 2013, at 6:44 PM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote:
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.
Yes, but he is what we have. As with life in general, we have to play
the hand we were dealt.
...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.
No, it is not obvious to everyone. That will only happen if he
succeeds in creating a commercial generator that everyone can buy and
test.
> 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.
That is my point. It takes a very courageous and wealthy person to do
this and these people are very rare.
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.
Yes, Nature has given a gift that will eventually destroy civilization
as we know it. But Nature is like that. We all are tested by Nature.
If we fail, we die, as you so vividly describe below.
Ed
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
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