[Wonder Warthog]

"Certainly more research into both hot and "cold" fusion will increase basic knowledge but as the mind breaking amounts of money spent on hot fusion demonstrate, increasing budgets do not necessarily lead to practical results and may never."

LOL. Cold fusion has already demonstrated more progress than hot, having actually reached breakeven (and far more than breakeven).

"So it appears that enough money is being spent on cold fusion research even if not a green Niagra from Washington.

How about we spend 1% of the funds thus far spent on "hot fusion" on LENR research??? Given that the "hot fusioneers" have been running a disinformation campaign against LENR since pretty much day one...the sole reason for which was to protect their monetary turf. An effort which has, unfortunately, been largely successful.

[count-your-change]

Away with you! You’ve been exposed.

[Kevmo]

How about we spend 1% of the funds thus far spent on “hot fusion” on LENR research???
***I’m a revolutionary. I think it should be 2% or more. In fact, I think it should be proportional to the energy produced by each experiment over the last few years.

The hot fusion boys have spent $250B of our money, and the best we have to show for it is 6MJoules of output for a few seconds. In the meantime, hundreds of LENR experiments have generated thousands of MJoules for less than a thousandth of the cost — almost all of which is private money to begin with.

So for hot fusion, we’ve got maybe a total of 10MJoules for $250B, which comes to $25k/Joule. For cold fusion, we’ve got maybe a total of 100k MJoules for $250M, which 25cents/Joule.