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Posted on 05/20/2011 6:39:26 AM PDT by Normandy
Most of the discussion surrounding Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat has focused on the scientific aspects, and the future commercialization of the technology. Sooner or later, however, if this device is indeed a new and improved source of energy it will make its entrance into the political realm.
It’s interesting that the E-Cat will be launched in the Autumn of 2011 — just as the United States 2012 campaign season begins to get into full swing. One of the biggest campaign issues in this election cycle is going to be energy policy. American voters are focusing on the economics of energy policy in a big way, with gasoline (and other fuel) prices close to record levels at a time when money is tight, unemployment is high, and the future is very uncertain.
What is a politician to do when faced with a working E-Cat that can produce clean, plentiful energy very cheaply?
(Excerpt) Read more at e-catworld.com ...
I do not like government spending, but if this is validated as workable science, then the government should spend a few hundred billion perfecting it and helping to distribute the capability across this country. I wouldn’t want the government to throw money at a “possibility”, but it’s is proven to work, then pursuing a policy of energy independence just makes sense.
There will be some conservatives who will say government shouldn’t have a role in this, except to get out of the way and let the market work. Others, like you suggest, would see such a technology as being vital to America’s economic health and competitiveness and want to take a more active role in promoting it.
I guess you could look at this from a national security point of view as well as an economic one. It may give us the freedom from energy sources from hostile parts of the world.
1. If it moves, tax it.
2. If it keeps moving, regulate it.
3. If it stops moving, subsidize it.
How does an electronic catalog have anything to do with clean cheap energy?
I have yet to see anything that is convincing that this is a real phenomena. If real, it should be easy to demonstrate. So far, I haven’t seen a test that any stage magician couldn’t figure out easy ways to manipulate. As long as this device is hooked up to a power supply that is not monitored through a secure third party connection, there is plenty of room for fraud.
Goveco should STAY OUT!! they have proven time and time again that they could and will fu*k up a one car funeral.
The only thing govt would do with free/cheap energy is to tax or kill it, and use it for its own nefarious purposes.
If you want a US slaver government (more than you have), let it have this kind of resource.
If this e-Cat energy source were genuine - which I strongly doubt - ALL conservatives, without exception, should tell Government to keep well out of it.
Why? Because private industry makes wealth. Government simply gloms onto wealth and regulates it into extinction.
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So far the only thing I’ve seen it generate is hype and promises. The Segway scooters have done more to revolutionize the world than this has.
“I do not like government spending, but if this is validated as workable science, then the government should spend a few hundred billion perfecting it and helping to distribute the capability across this country.”
The technology will be owned by someone. It won’t be up to our government...
Funny how all this “E-Cat” chatter is about sociopolitical impact, instead of showing one working and starting up an assembly line. Pretty good indicator it’s a scam.
If it’s real, easy to make, and works that well, why aren’t proponents making money hand-over-fist with ‘em already?
The government purchases a great many things. The government subsidizes many industries. As a Conservative, I do not like that, and I almost always talk against such spending. However, in the interest of national security, I think that energy independence is in our best interest. If the government paid money to the owner of this technology, in an effort to spread this technology across the country, then I think it might be money well spent.
I would be wary of anyone hawking such technology going into an election cycle. The media will have an opportunity to play up a single unproven technology for their favored candidate.
Timing of this and any energy technology news should be approached with a good dose of skepticism.
A 1 megawatt power plant is being constructed in Greece and is expected to come on-line in October 2011. If this technology is a fraud, we will know soon enough.
I beleive in skepticism -- but I've seen a lot of people push that beyond any reasonable bounds: they put their fingers in their ears and say "This isn't true. This isn't true. This isn't true."
I don't understand that reaction.
The contract would specify that 100% of any delivered system must be manufactured on US soil.
Once the military contracts were complete, there would be e-cat capability to handle the rest of US conversion.
“A huge part of the reason for central Federal government is to muster the military resources to facilitate the transport of huge amounts of oil to the US daily from the Mideast. A tremendous benefit would be the defusing of all of this byzantine mess.”
Even if this thing works, it is not going to replace transportation fuel in the near future. We will still need oil for the forseeable future.
It would kill the NG and coal industry which are both domestic.
“I don’t understand that reaction.”
It’s not the first time I’ve seen these claims.
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