Replies to post #247857 on Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[Zeev Hed]

Any technology will take at least 20 years to be fully implemented, ample time for readjustment. The main question is if such a technology need be "concentrated or distributed". If the former, then no major shocks, if the latter, yes, then a lot of capex in power generation will have to be written off....that will be a financial shock of major proportion, so much that congress might legislate a slow turn over, or keeping centralized energy extraction to keep these behemoth alive...and out of MRVL at $42.30 for another $.93, hexabucker in, let the discount come so that the hepta can be produced. Now T has finally turned mildly positive...

[brainlessone]

guy affiliated with cold fusion murdererd under mysterious circumstances

[TJ Parker]

And IF during the completion of the process or before final completion, S.A. or other oil rich countries got wind of this, they could effectivley knock us back into the stone age by shutting off exports to the US or in a sense blackmailing us into NOT trying to find a way out from under their control.

this would affect the entire world economy, not just the u.s.

even if the u.s. was the only target.

[osprey]

Wishing for miracles like free energy has a long, long tradition dating back to the pleistocene. If you want magic energy from seawater, why not also wish for transmutation of lead to gold, immortality, corn flakes that never get soggy, stocks that only go up and a zillion other things.

FWIW, a few years ago I saw someone trying to swap a cold fusion generator for a perpetual motion machine. Not sure who was getting the better part of that deal :>).