Esa Ruoho <esaru...@gmail.com> wrote: You could always sell/rent a cold fusion-based diesel-aggregator > replacement to a bunch of electronic music hippies. or other types of > festivals, too. >
Seriously, that kind of thing would never make any money. I am sure it will take billions of dollars to develop cold fusion into a practical source of energy. Maybe tens of billions. It took $1 billion to develop the Prius. Compared to cold fusion that was a minor incremental improvement to existing technology. I am sure that only major industrial corporations can develop cold fusion into a practical and safe form of energy. They will have to find ways to earn back that investment. Tapping into a $6 trillion per year market will eventually earn them hundreds of billions of dollars a year, possibly trillions of dollars. That is the only way to make a reasonable return on the investment. Some of the cold fusion researchers have thought about how to make money. They often come up with penny ante plans similar to this one. They have no concept of how difficult it will be to develop, and on the other side they have no concept of how much money can be earned with it. I recall that Les Case wanted to keep cold fusion secret. He had a ridiculous scheme that involved land in Australia. As I recall he wanted to irrigate it, grow grapes, make wine, and sell the wine to make a profit. Something like that. He would have an edge because he was irrigating with cold fusion. Why he would want to hide the cold fusion aspect of it I do not know. It was crazy. Patterson wanted a 100% market share. That's crazy too. Why would anyone insist on getting 100% of a $6 trillion market? He died with 100% of nothing. That was inevitable. I am sure that large corporations will spend the money to develop this, no matter what it costs. Even $100 billion would be a small amount compared to the profits they will make. - Jed
