I understand well the skepticism of many on Miley. As far as I know Miley have no validated reactor. He has a rational project, which can be written on the back of a Post-it. The image is an artistic vision, which I hope is not the final engineering result.
However I deeply disagree with the cognitive dissonance that I observe all the time on LENR. LENR is real, so it is NORMAL SCIENCE, in a psychiatric hospital for depressive people called Western World. It tooks 5 months with a normal team for Defkalion to make a first reactor. I know people comfortably doubt on them, but the behavioral evidences are clear. I'm not living in the conspiracy theorist world where all is in doubt. I live in a human world, enclosing the business world, where people a rationally crazy. However the biggest reason to support this project for an ultra-light startup is that OTHER PROJECTS ARE NO BETTER. They also have crazy artists scheme, unproven ideas, many challenges. Some are based on known theories, but engineers can tell you that it does not make things work better. All have big chance to fail, yet to give lessons. For me the challenge of Miley is not around LENR, if he works with good experts (in material science), but around harnessing TEG and most of all, organizational and mass psychiatry. Of course I assume that in such a startup he will work with a normal engineer team, and not in a garage. Maybe I underestimated that risk. More than success of creating that startup, I imagine that this can put the focus on LENR and call interest on emerging business that flourish today. My forecast if Miley win the vote is that it will be anyway rejected, but some more people will hear of LENR, and they will see the facts better than the government. I remember reading one book of the Fondation trilogy by Asimov. When the Empire is collapsing, even a great general cannot save it, because the intrinsic stupidity is impossible to fight, even by a genius. As said Defkalion recently there is no hope from governments. I just hope to catch some interest of people at the border of the Empire of Stupidity where I live currently.
