Here is a "bettery" promo - an image/chart that is a bit dated, but nevertheless was once filled with hope and promise (to the alternative energy crowd, most voticians included). This despite the ugliness of the auto. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," as they say... or is that "beauty is, as beauty does" ?
Anyway, I just now set the image as my desktop background for the Dell, dude. It is meant to be an occasional reminder - of the need for deep "zen" contemplation about larger issues - about "dualities" and unrealized "expectations," the rejection of the status quo, and the meaning of life in the context of sacrifices made for ensuing generations. All this from a desktop image ;-) http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VyTCyizqrHs/Sm4xz7lNnbI/AAAAAAAAEZE/PdHHRFuKqe8/s1 600-h/eestorzennmotor.jpg As you will notice, although there is a lot of enticement in the message, especially to an environmentalist - when you try to put that into a time-denominated context, then unfortunately - doubt is cast on everything by the mention of a date; and that bleeds over into larger doubts about the original prognostication. That is because a somewhat artificial time-table, or deadline, was set and never reached.... The same thing has happened numerous times for Mills/ BLP... and almost every breakthrough technology that has ever surfaced; but it is normal in 'human nature' to expect that if the purveyor of information is smart enough to make the advance which is claimed (the hero), then he should be smart enough to set a plausible time-table for delivery (the hero never fails). This is a logical error. In truth, most of the problems we face as a culture and as a society, arise when we try to conflate "advancement" with time-delineated expectation. We are still the "now-generation" to an extent. I suspect that the present administration, which is an order of magnitude more advanced (in terms of intellectual acumen and policy) than was its predecessor, will nevertheless soon be facing the same shortfall in the eyes of the impatient masses, the plumbers of the land, when it comes to a time-delineated expectation (which was too ambitious to begin with). As for EEStor, they face almost exactly the same criticism and skepticism that LENR and other technologies have faced. The one abominable characteristic that almost all skeptics share is the lack of patience for "delayed rewards" when the underlying logic of the reward is not false. If they are accurate about the falsity of the underlying technology, then they are not skeptics, but experts. Almost not vocal skeptic has expertise outside a narrow field, often a mundane narrow field, but all of them want to magnify their prowess in their pitiable specialty, into a grandiose generality. Patience is really a decision-making problem, not as precise as logic but involving the choice of either a small reward in the short-term, or a more valuable reward after a indeterminate period of time. For the skeptic, the "small reward" is merely 'stasis' or the wish of a conservative mentality to not be troubled, since change of all kinds is deemed as a threat. All animals, humans included, discount future rewards to some degree. That is: the present value of delayed rewards is viewed as far, far less than the value of immediate rewards, even if that present reward is small - like stasis. In evolutionary psychology and in cognitive neuroscience, the ability to accept delay, postpone rewards, and to discount the value of stasis, is what distinguishes the advanced culture from the primitive culture. Don't know about you ... but I would rather not be "Parked" into that primitive culture by bullying specialists who are out of their league, simply to preserve a status quo that is unacceptable (to those with patience).
