India's population is ~1.2 billion, slightly behind China. This is both a curse and perhaps a small blessing - if they can take advantage of the opportunity now presenting itself. The blessing: They have more 'honors students' than we have students. And ten times more in math and engineering. There is a lot of potential brain-power, mixed with overwhelming poverty, resulting in an extreme level of motivation for an energy breakthrough - and LENR is the ideal technology for that country. With an energy breakthrough in India, wealth will follow. In the 21st century: wealth = energy. Does anyone doubt that? Side note: if you are old enough, you probably remember the preppy clothing style popular in Colleges in the 1960s - influenced by the bright plaid light cotton known as "Madras". That was the former name of the city now called Chennai. I kinda thought that I missed that style, in a way, until I had a look at google images. Now it looks pretty silly, but that is a side effect of 50 years of maturing taste. http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=imghp&biw=1333&bih=721&q=madras +pants+for+men&gbv=2&aq=1&aqi=g2g-m1&aql=&oq=madras+pants
>From the Deccan Times Chennai, Feb. 6: It may be still in the realm of science fiction for many but a nanotechnology expert has claimed that green, clean, safe and cheap energy can be produced using a low energy nuclear reactor in room temperature. "One does not need materials like uranium, plutonium or thorium or for that matter any kind of reactors," said Prof David Nagel, research professor, micro and nano technologies, George Washington University, USA. "There will not be any radiation or radioactive waste in this mode of power generation." Prof Nagel was addressing students and faculty attending the tutorial school on "Science of Low Energy Nuclear Reactions" in IIT Madras on Saturday. According to him, two Italian scientists, Prof Sergio Focardi and Andrea Rossi, had demonstrated a 10 KW LENR reactor at Bologna on January 14. "But the International Patent Office rejected their application for patent because the authorities were not convinced about the feasibility of the LENR," he said. "Scientists who have made breakthroughs in LENR are reluctant to come out in the open because of the fear that they may be deprived of their intellectual property rights."