From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Tue Mar 05 2002 - 08:24:51 MST
"Dickey, Michael F" wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Lorrey [mailto:mlorrey@datamann.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 9:02 PM
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Re: Cold fusion redux
>
> "Keep in mind also that Oak Ridge has a vested interest in disproving
> experiments like this, because they presage cheap, easy to access fusion
> energy, which is totally anathema to multi-billion dollar science and
> engineering R&D budgets."
>
> I dont know who you are thinking of that has 'multi billion dollar' budgets,
> in the US, try less than half the cost of a single shuttle launch, or about
> 250 million. (this book was written two to three years ago)
>
> Fusion Reactors
> " The total budget for fusion research in the United States
> currently stands at about $250 million per year- less that half the cost of
> a Shuttle launch, or, in real dollars, about one-third of what it was in
> 1980. "
> Robert Zubrin - Entering Space - page 84
How many years has this gone on for? At least since 1980, when it had a
three times larger budget. Assuming an average annual budget of $500
million for 22 years gives us a 22 year budget of $11 billion dollars.
Eleven billion bucks spent by thousands of energy depertment
bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, administrators, support personnel,
and janitors to fail to achieve something which virtually anybody could
do on a desktop experiment. And you think there is NO vested interest? I
rest my case.
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