Bob Fry wrote:


Really?? Rather, anybody can throw money at a problem, and...keep
throwing money at it. Like sending a flight loads of ca$h to Iraq
[http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1734939,00.html and many
other refs].


Bob... give me six million dollars and I will make a small electric
plane that flies with a fuel cell.

Will it be cost effective? who knows. Will anyone want it?

To actually solve a problem, regardless of money, takes insight and a
modicum of intelligence. As an American and engineer I'm seeing less
and less of both here, and it ****es me off. But we got about half
the country thinking our decline is caused because the other half
doesn't pray. Science? Engineering? Rational thought? That's for
the weird-sounding foreigns, 4-eyed geeks, and far-left libs. No, we
just need to return to God and Jesus and everything will be fine.


I'm an engineer too Bob. Taxpayers have spent many millions for
special development projects over the years. What I would find
interesting is to know if any of them ever made a dime out of
their "investment".

When you have to convince a group of private investers to put
up a lot of money for R&D of a potential new product you have
to do a lot of homewrok to convince them that what you are
doing will end up a viable product.