http://web.archive.org/web/20081212122631/http://www.geocities.com/jim_bowery/BussardsLetter.html
Dr. Bussard's cover letter contains some historically very important disclosures concerning the founding of the United States government's fusion energy program - in particular this excerpt: The DoE committment to very large fusion concepts (the giant magnetic tokamak) ensures only the need for very large budgets; and that is what the program has been about for the past 15 years - a defense-of-budget program - not a fusion-achievement program. As one of three people who created this program in the early 1970's (when I was an Asst. Dir. of the AEC's Controlled Thermonuclear Reaction Division) I know this to be true; we raised the budget in order to take 20% off the top of the larger funding, to try all of the hopeful new things that the mainline labs would not try. Each of us left soon thereafter, and the second generation management thought the big program was real; it was not. Ever since then, the ERDA/DoE has rolled Congress to increase and/or continue big-budget support. This worked so long as various Democratic Senators and Congressmen could see the funding as helpful in their districts. But fear of undermining their budget position also made DoE bureaucrats very autocratic and resistant to any kind of new approach, whether inside DoE or out in industry. This led DoE to fight industry wherever a non-DoE hopful new idea appeared. On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > Those decision makers who are scientifically uninitiated are going to > search around for guidance from some experts in the scientific field that > they think might cover this Defkalion demo. > > Well, they think… it must obviously be some sort of fusion reaction, so we > should ask the plasma scientists worldwide to evaluate this demo for > experimental content and theory. > > But wait a minute; these experts already have billions of dollars of next > year’s funding requests submitted to fusion hungry governments all over the > world. > > So now that LENR is verging on respectability, and knowing the weakness of > human nature, can’t we now rightfully view the pursuit of big box hot > fusion as a scam to extract unending funding to perpetuate a fraudulent > science that has little chance of crystalizing into an engineering success > story? > > Can they ever expect to get an honest evaluation from the hot plasma > folks? What are these poor misguided design makers to do? Where can they > get the truth? And what to do with scientists that have spent 40 billion > dollars over all those same years that they ridiculed LENR as a possibility > and actively sought to destroy the people that wanted to advance it, > > > >
