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To: Kevmo

Right. We could pour untold billions of taxpayer dollars into the cold fusion fantasy......or we could build this little suckers by the thousands for a fraction of the cost without a dime of taxpayer money.

What to do......what to do......


6 posted on 02/11/2012 8:15:08 AM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Lurker

We’ve poured untold billions of taxpayer dollars into the hot fusion fantasy and got nothin.


7 posted on 02/11/2012 8:21:03 AM PST by Kevmo (If you can define a man by the depravity of his enemies, Rick Santorum must be a noble soul indeed.)
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To: Lurker
"Right. We could pour untold billions of taxpayer dollars into the cold fusion fantasy......or we could build this little suckers by the thousands for a fraction of the cost without a dime of taxpayer money."

It hasn't been cold fusion that has gotten "untold billions of taxpayer dollars". That would be the "hot fusion" (and particularly the Tokamak) guys. VERY little taxpayer money has gone to CF. It could probably have been funded out of the petty cash account of the hot fusion efforts.

16 posted on 02/11/2012 9:22:01 AM PST by Wonder Warthog
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To: Lurker

>>What to do......what to do......

What NOT to do......

“In the Soviet-era program, which started in the 1970s but was abandoned, tractors fitted with containers of cesium 137 (and lead shielding to protect the driver) irradiated wheat seeds before sowing them, in an attempt to induce beneficial mutations in the crops. The radiation was also applied to grain after harvest, to prevent it from germinating. A total of ten of the containers have been recovered in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine; no one knows how many more are unaccounted for....”
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/hotstuff.html?c=y&page=5

“Oopski”


25 posted on 02/11/2012 10:09:36 AM PST by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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