New RTSC candidate with a lesson for LENR From: Jones Beene Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 6:48 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]:New RTSC candidate with a lesson for LENR
Jones-- You noted: >>>The meltdowns happened in 2012 (published by Szpak and Dea in J. Cond. Mat. >>>Nuc. Sci) before SPAWAR was disbanded and apparently the meltdown results >>>were not pursued by anyone else thereafter, despite the shocking military >>>implications. Too bad, but symptomatic of the many external circumstances >>>which have kept LENR from advancing. I suppose the “conspiracy theorist” (not there are any of them here) might cynically opine that the Navy R&D program was ostensibly shut down as a false front, so that it could be moved into a “dark program”… however, none of the participants seem to believe that… at least not publicly. It is the only scenario which would make one think that all large bureaucracies are inherently incompetent (Rickover notwithstanding).<<< I for one in this Vortex group am cynically and do opine that the SPAWAR’S effort in LENR became BLACK along with 5300 some odd other programs (still on the books) over the years, most of them labeled as such by the DOD AND DOE. My cynicism does not come from a concern with the incompetence of the US government, however. It is based on a disagreement with the value system that seems to drive decisions this government makes. Specifically, the value promoted by this government that secrecy regarding scientific endeavors and secret knowledge as it relates to development of weapons and national defense trumps making such knowledge available and promoted to further the advancement of civilized actions to make a better life for the masses. This promotion of secrecy is consistent with feeding the military industrial complex and its opulent elite corporations that prosper at the expense of the majority. The value held by many of greed and avarice is the real source of my cynicism. And that the value is reflected by the voting public in what they allow to happen, probably because of ignorance. As you suggest, Rickover at least saw through the military industrial complex and refused to abide by its rules. He tried to make scientific information available to the public for nuclear power development—to better the civilized world. I was intimately involved with his efforts to develop the light water breeder reactor (Th-232/U-233 cycle), as well as his growing disillusion with the nuclear power industrial complex and its ability to manage nuclear power safely, and environmentally “correct” for the good of the masses. His concerns have been raised to real issues throughout the world, somewhat mitigating my cynicism—at least in one area of technology—fission nuclear power. Although Rickover was not as well known about his concerns over the education system in the United States, the development of an education/government complex was a focus of his criticism over many years. I once wrote a letter for him that he sent to the Arlington, VA school system regarding the disproportional number of administrators with high salaries compared to teachers and their salaries. The issue of the university/military-industrial complex has only blossomed since his death in the early 1980’s. University research is becoming more and more controlled by grant provisions, patent rights and secrecy. Bob Cook
