OrionWorks wrote:
And yet, the amount of funding that would need to be involved for adequate CF research would by all accounts dwarf the amount of funding that has been sunk into HF research for decades.
I think you mean "be dwarfed by." They have spent billions on hot fusion, and I think cold fusion can be developed -- or not -- with a few hundred million. "Or not" means that with that much money we might determine cold fusion cannot easily be developed. It may be like hot fusion in that regard, which probably cannot be made practical with any amount of money, given our present state of knowledge.
The amount of funding needed is trivial by the standards of the U.S. economy. We spend $6 billion per year on cosmetics, for goodness sake.
Once cold fusion is made practical, we would then have to spend hundreds of billions of dollars engineering new products and on new factory production lines. As I pointed out in the book, however, we have to make new factory production lines anyway, and the investment in cold fusion would pay back very quickly.
- Jed
