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To: elmatador who wrote (32552)	4/28/2003 11:56:23 AM
From: Moominoid	Respond to of 74559

That's a clever move! Pay for the researchers so that their conclusions are not against carmakers and oil business. Which researcher would come to a conclusion against the business of the guys who funded them?? There's not a conclusion or not a conclusion here. The program is to test the viability of the technologies from an engineering, geological, and economic perspective. They'll come back and tell the sponsors either: "this will work" or it won't or it would work if the government or world governments adopted such and such a policy etc. I was looking for a job in that program. Didn't work out in the end but was an interesting visit last year. Similarly the more fundamental climate modeling research at Princeton or what I do is aimed at finding out what the effect of greenhouse gases is. There is no preordained answer. Government would wish the answer is "not much" but if the answer is "this is really bad" they want to know that too.