Reply To: Brain: dualism of consciousness.

[Brian H]

Yes, but-but. It’s too late for them, Eric. Honestly, given the amount of info already on the loose about your research, what would block anyone from the Chinese to North Koreans to Taiwanese to Singaporeans to Chileans to ….. from replicating the results if you once announce achieve unity? Even if they deep-six you and Murali and John and Aaron, it’s gone too far.

They won’t “jump on board” willingly, but unless they can stop EVERYONE from producing and using FF, the jig is up.

The price of oil would take some time to drop to the cost of production in the lower-cost arenas, since there is such a huge overhang of gear that uses gasoline/diesel/jet fuel/heating oil, etc., but it would eventually come to that. Meanwhile, the extractive industries would either find new ways to deploy existing capital, or perish. Which has happened to numerous ‘dominant’ sectors throughout history, including recent history.

The fact that the current economy is in the Great Recession doesn’t hurt, either. I expect FF to bust that downslide in fairly short order.

But your point about being well known and well thought of is part of the story, too, of course. The more people know, and expect/hope FF will succeed, the harder to slow/squelch it.

And … back to ROI. The creation of, say, double the current generating capacity (and expansion of the grid, and deployment in hitherto unworkable locales, etc.) will provide earnings opportunities which will be unparalleled. And the uses to which such power can be put is the real “boost”. Take some time and give the basic numbers to a competent accountant, even an industrial cost accountant, and ask him to extrapolate. Or even an economist, though they won’t have the same gut feel for the implications.

I don’t think FF can be stopped, if your science is right.