Since May of this year, there has been an on-and-off discussion thread here, "Cold Fusion X Prize." This confused me. I don't follow who is proposing what. Dennis Cravens is also baffled by this.
Anyway, following the links, there is a recent short article in e-catworld: http://www.e-catworld.com/2014/09/13/xprize-offers-20-million-for-forbidden-energy/ This article has a video. The article links back to Dr. Bob's page: http://www.drboblog.com/xprize-forbidden-energy-xprize/ Dr. Bob says there was a discussion of this during the "Visioneering Contest." That's what is shown in the video. Then Dr. Bob concludes: * Winning the Visioneering Contest does not automatically qualify a topic for the XPRIZE competition. The sponsors and the board of the XPRIZE foundation (?) will take the final decision for the XPRIZE – Which is yet to be announced. * The founders, sponsors and partners of XPRIZE are individuals & companies that could all benefit greatly economically from a Forbidden Energy competition – there are no obvious conflicting interests. Dr. Bob links to: www.xprize.org So, you have to go to this web site to see whether the people at xprize decided to implement this Visioneering Contest winner. I went there, and found nothing about cold fusion. I found this list of future prizes: http://www.xprize.org/prizes/future-prizes Neither energy nor cold fusion is mentioned. Below that is a list of "Prize Concepts." There is a category "Energy & Environment" with 7 items in it. Cold fusion is not among them. So, I guess the discussion never went beyond the Visioneering Contest. Right? - Jed
