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- From: amon@elegabalus.cs.qub.ac.uk
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- Subject: Re: FREE-ENERGY TECHNOLOGY For Spacecraft
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 14:24:25 GMT
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- > The only vested interest the utilities have is to their past investment of
- > money in their power plants. But the above advantages reduce operating costs
- > SO much that they would jump at it. (imagine an electric plant that doesn't
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- > need to buy any coal, has virtually no cost related to safety equipment,
- spends
- > nothing on environmental technology, and still charges what it used
- to)==profit!
- >
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- I agree. EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute) funds all sorts of
- technology, some of it things that government$ and $tati$t$ won't fund because
- of the politic$ involved. For instance, EPRI are still funding cold fusion
- experiments because the chance that it might work out is, as you put it,
- something they would virtually kill for.
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- I have this disturbing impression that this McElwaine fellow sounds like the La
- Rouchians, although Lyndon's conspiracy theories only had to do with politics
- and economics. His science was usually not that bad, and Fusion Magazine was
- actually quite good when it stayed away from his politics. (As an old L5
- Society activist, I'm still waiting for my "psycho-sexual gratification" :-)
-