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LENR October Surprise (fiction)

Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 3:15 pm
by DeltaV
While I am very interested in LENR as an energy possibility (in particular, Widom-Larsen), I simply don't have the time to follow it, or the LENR threads in this forum, in any great detail.

So I post the link below (which I only had time to briefly scan) with apologies if it has already been posted here:

A Story of Cold Fusion
POWER
Barack Obama and the New Green Energy
Fiction by Joe Shea


I wonder if we'll be hearing much more about LENR just before the November election.

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 11:20 am
by Ivy Matt
I read that a few days ago, and was rather amused. One of my favorite lines (among many):
As a former professor of constitutional law, he knew boundaries were being pushed.
It's not really about an October surprise, though. Although that appears to have been the original intent,
If our generators were not delivered on time...the political destinies of the President and others would be gravely affected.
the big reveal keeps getting pushed back further
Our goal has been to convert at least 50 percent of the power generation at 300 utilities we'd identified to LENR by 2013, when the President would announce the achievement to the public in a nationwide broadcast.
and further,
That day was still at least two years away, and if the world media remained as lazy as it is, it might be even longer.
sort of like the manufacture of Rossi's home E-Cat.

(Then again, for all I know it's not about the 2012 campaign at all, but rather the much more significant and difficult 2016 campaign.)