Edmund Storms <stor...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: Of course LENR is denied by the West. The technology is a real and profound > danger to the West. It would undermine the economics of the energy > industries, on which the West is built, and it would give the Third world, > including China and India, great advantage. >
That is incorrect. The economics of the energy industry play only a small role in most first world countries, such as the U.S., France or Japan. The number of people employed in the energy business has fallen drastically in the last several decades. The percent of the GDP devoted to energy has fallen. GDP and productivity per joule of energy has soared, because of improved efficiency in things like lighting, heating, power generation, computers and automobile gas mileage. These improvements have been drastic in some cases. LED lighting takes only about one-fifth of the electricity of incandescent lights. Energy plays a large role in the economics of Russia, Venezuela and Middle Eastern oil exporting countries. Furthermore, decreasing the cost of energy is likely to improve first world economies sooner than it improves third world countries or China, since we have more high tech, we have more ways to grow the economy, and we import more energy per capita than they do. Lower energy costs would be a tremendous boon to Japan, because they are closing down all of the nuclear power plants. > The people in charge in the West may seem stupid in their policies, but > they are fully aware of the danger LENR represents. > I do not think so. Not the ones I have heard from. Not the ones in the Japanese government that Mizuno and others have spoken with, or in the Navy. - Jed
