IIRC the Kevmo moniker has been tied to a California LENR advocacy group, which at one point had whimsical “cats” in a group of persons forming a headline in a paper.
This is way more than “information” to a “ping list.” If the advocacy stopped at the lead article it would be one matter. But! This Kevmo is argufying for more US governmental largesse (basically, making the argument that since America has long subsidized Tokamak research, it has an obligation to subsidize Rossi e-Cats too, just because they claim to sometimes put out more power than Tokamaks do). It falls on deaf ears that many would want to see Tokamaks go private too.
I was a mere skeptic about what Rossi has supposedly found, but this kicks the action into a whole nother plane, a US subsidy one. If this is not grounds for Freepers to say Enough, what is?
If you followed LENR at all, you would know that it has been developed to this point without signficant gov't funding at all, while the "hot fusion" effort has been sucking down billions upon billions of dollars with negligible results.
And it isn't just about LENR. There are several different approaches to "hot fusion" that have more promise than the Tokamak (Bussard Polywell, for one). But the tokamak crowd has managed to monopolize virtually all fusion funding.
"Putting all one's eggs in a single basket" has never been good policy.
"I was a mere skeptic about what Rossi has supposedly found, but this kicks the action into a whole nother plane, a US subsidy one. If this is not grounds for Freepers to say Enough, what is?"
Guess what. Your purist position that "government shouldn't fund research" has never existed in the history of the US. It started with the Lewis and Clark expedition, and has continued ever since. As an entirely practical matter, the US has found over and over again that funding research is essential to national survival.