Reply To: NIMBY FUD

[Brian H]

LPP’s premier “protection” against any of the kinds of squelching or interference being postulated here is openness. So much info is already provided that if LPP suddenly went “black” any number of countries/agencies world-wide could replicate and complete the work with a few million$ and a couple of years work. IOW, the cat is effectively already out of the bag.

I don’t see the Iranian initiative and collaboration as particularly threatening or even all that important, except perhaps as a kind of back-handed “noodge” to get local backing.

I remain extremely dubious about the value or desirability of US gov’t funding. Strings like steel cables generally come with, and the more you need the money, the tighter the cables. Scoring a one-time grant from some lower level of gov’t might work out. But if possible, adequate funding from private sources, but with all voting rights remaining in Eric’s hands, is far better.