[feedquote='E-Cat World','http://www.e-catworld.com/2014/02/a-non-conservative-outlook-for-lenr/']The following post was sent by ECW reader Christopher Dennis as a comment on an earlier thread titled ‘The Structural Impacts of LENR‘, and I felt this would be a good starting point for a […][/feedquote]
A Non-Conservative Outlook for LENR
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Synthetic fuels could be produced with cold fusion, not today but if adequately funded maybe in a year or two. You could
do the same thing with fission reactors, just convince investors that it would be profitable.But the basic problem is that if you go and talk to the R&D budget manager of virtually any multi-billion dollar industrial corporation
they will tell you that cold fusion is unproven and has never been shown to work. Their are several ways to fix this but arguing
is not one of them. Making a cold fusion device available for testing doesn't help. However, if someone is making a profit on
cold fusion devices then people will take notice. Nobody will care whether its theoretically possible or not.Maybe Rossi, Defkalion, Brillouin, and others can put out a product soon. The R&D budget avalanche will then follow.
I am encouraged that StMicroelectronics filed a cold fusion patent.
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It seems that phase is over for some, and in process for some others.
Investors are not stupid, and today they see that there is hope, just hope maybe, for industrial and no more toys like in the 90s. They however know it is socially risky, and they have to be discrete.
Some young startups are still battling in "the valley of death" to convince venture capitalist to invest below a million, just for research. It starts to work.
Cherokee and Sunrise Securities are example of investor further proposing millions, for more mature prototypes.
It will go very fast when things get public.
The trigger will be when some markets will freeze waiting for a LENR variant of the product...imagine suddenly all clients refusing to buy an expensive boiler, preferring a cheap one or repairing the old, because they expect a LENR boiler in few years...
Imagine cars no more sold, waiting for LENR-cars to produce it's first prototypes.
For oil it can block shale oil prospections, and most oil prospection...all companies in those frozen markets will ask LENR experts how to design "LENR-enhanced" products, in less than 18month.
before the markets are frozen, companies could stay blind. after, not possible.
