Comments on: What the Utility Companies Are Thinking to Change http://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/newenergyandfuel/com/2009/01/23/what-the-utility-companies-are-thinking-to-change/ News and Views for Making and Saving Money in New Energy and Fuel Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:16:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: j p straley http://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/newenergyandfuel/com/2009/01/23/what-the-utility-companies-are-thinking-to-change/comment-page-1/#comment-16572 j p straley Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:21:17 +0000 http://newenergyandfuel.com/?p=1487#comment-16572 I've written my congress-critters (for all the good it does...), with the following suggestions: 1. Fund thorium reactor engineering work 2. The alternative fusion ventures are interesting, have at least as much probability of practical electric generation as tokamak, and are cheap to explore to the proof-of-concept level. Twenty million funds them all. Print the money and do it now. 3. Research funding (in millions) and prizes (in billions) for items like a practical automotive battery or an aerogel formulation that can be injected in existing wall cavities. My experience is that a few elected congress folk actually do look at the mail. If they get a goodly number of these letters they may just scratch that itch, or at least have a moderate epiphany about the technology that is out there. JP Straley I’ve written my congress-critters (for all the good it does…), with the following suggestions:
1. Fund thorium reactor engineering work
2. The alternative fusion ventures are interesting, have at least as much probability of practical electric generation as tokamak, and are cheap to explore to the proof-of-concept level. Twenty million funds them all. Print the money and do it now.
3. Research funding (in millions) and prizes (in billions) for items like a practical automotive battery or an aerogel formulation that can be injected in existing wall cavities.

My experience is that a few elected congress folk actually do look at the mail. If they get a goodly number of these letters they may just scratch that itch, or at least have a moderate epiphany about the technology that is out there.

JP Straley

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