Re: Coal plants of any type are unlikely to find favor in the fu

Human history is riddled with examples of
innovations and research that had been suppressed and derogated by the leading
science community and the accepted scientific conventions of the time.
Throughout human history, many innovators became the victims of the insults of
the skeptical scientific, governmental and corporate power elites.

Many scientists and scholars know that disagreeing with the dominant view is
risky, especially when that view is backed by powerful interest groups. When
someone presents a new research, unconventional or unpopular scientific view,
or comes out with a new way of doing things that threatens a powerful interest
group, typically a government, industry or professional body, representatives of
that group attack the innovator's  ideas and the innovator
personally.  Such attacks are carried out by censoring writing, blocking
publications, withdrawing or denying grants, taking legal actions, or spreading
rumors.

What are the effects of suppression of new ideas, intellectual dissent,
unconventional, or unpopular scientific views?  Suppression is not only a
denial of the open debate that is the foundation of a free society, it also creates
artificial barriers and in effect retard innovation and creativity. Moreover, it has a chilling effect that breeds external
censorship as well as self-censorship.  If we can learn anything from the
history of science, it is the dissidents and the unconventional thinkers who have
spurred science on.

Incidently, we received an unsolicited notice of your posts on this topic and only replied as more kept arriving. 

When your angry, ignorant, insults end, we will be happy to stop responding.