Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > *Nuclear and fossil fuels, undercut wind energy through grid problems, > intermittency, high energy invested again energy gain.* > Also birds. The coal industry claims that wind turbines kill birds. That is ridiculous because turbines kill very few birds, whereas coal smoke not only kills millions of birds, it kills roughly 20,000 people in the U.S. alone, and many more in China.
Reflective glass on buildings kills many more birds than wind turbines do. Nevertheless, the U.S. Congressman from Big Coal, (D, WV) proposed a law banning the use of wind turbines because they kill birds. > *LENR is being attacked in like manor, but in a more unfocused way > because few attackers know how LENR really works.* > I do not think it is being attacked by the fossil fuel or nuclear power companies yet. Only by the DoE and the plasma fusion researchers. I am sure they will attack it as soon as they realize it is real. > *The will be an attempt to connect LENR with the nuclear power attack > venue, to make use of all the nuclear propaganda.* > No doubt this is true. I have already seen it begun. Actually, they have a valid point. LENR does produce trace amounts of tritium sometimes. Probably less than you find in a tritium emergency exit sign: http://www.theexitstore.com/exit_sign_info/facts-about-tritium-signs.htm > *Such debate is a reflection of the age old struggle for dominance that > goes back to the horse and buggy vs. the automobile debate.* > There was no debate back then because the buggy manufacturers did not take the automobile seriously until it was too late. Here are the words of the keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the National Association of Carriage Builders in 1908, the year that Ford introduced the Model T: "Eighty-five percent of the horse-drawn vehicle industry of the country is untouched by the automobile. In proof of the foregoing permit me to say that in 1906-7, and coincident with an enormous demand for automobiles, the demand for buggies reached the highest tide of its history. The man who predicts the downfall of the automobile is a fool; the man who denies its great necessity and general adoption for many uses is a bigger fool; and the man who predicts the general annihilation of the horse and his vehicle is the greatest fool of all." The fossil fuel companies will not make this mistake. *The way to respond to this certain adversarial situation going forward is > to perfect the LENR energy wars arguments against the energy competition.* > Yes. The way to win is to enlist the public on our side, as I say in the intro to my book. To do that we need good arguments. Mostly we need to appeal to people's self interest. That is to say, we need to tell them that cold fusion will save them $2,000 per capita per year, $8,000 for a family of 4. If the public comes to believe that, cold fusion will be unstoppable. - Jed
