Reply To: Physics Nobel to Big Bangers

[Aeronaut]

I like the idea of a professionally researched and written white paper which would explore the costs vs potential benefits to arrive at the price, talent, resources required and the various side benefits which each technology examined could provide, but which haven’t been able to be heard in the mainstream. Properly promoted, this could be a blockbuster.

Now, about doing anything useful within 20 years, you’re going to need a new breed of entrepreneur who has nothing to lose by betting on changing the world’s energy supplies. Such an entrepreneur realizes that his or her $250 to $500 startup can and should be designed to grow into a new Palo Alto Research Center, for instance.

We need a new rulebook, iow, where innovation is rewarded.