FWIW,

"PROF. SMALLEY'S LATEST BIG IDEA: NANO-ENERGY WILL SAVE THE EARTH"
Small Times
http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=4502

: Nanotech guru Richard Smalley is working on a new challenge – his
: biggest one yet.

: And he traveled Monday to Montreal to test it in front of an
: audience of aerospace scientists gathered at a former fortress that
: happens to sit in the shadow of a large geodesic dome. Smalley, of
: course, won a Nobel Prize for work on a rather small one called
: C-60, the novel carbon also known as Buckminsterfullerene in honor
: of Buckminster Fuller, who invented the geodesic dome.

: With his trademark flourish of science lecture laced with references
: to poetry and philosophy, Smalley told the audience of roughly
: 100 researchers attending the CANEUS Canada-Europe-U.S.-Asia
: workshop on the aerospace applications of nano- and
: microtechnologies that he aims to prove that nanotech can help save
: the world.

: "My idea is that if you solve the energy question, you'll solve a
: lot of those other problems in the process."

: Smalley has been formulating this theory that nanotech can save the
: world over the past several months, most recently in testimony at a
: congressional hearing on the future direction of the U.S. Department
: of Energy.

: His alternative? Energy from the sun and the Earth's core. "I don't
: know how it would work yet," he said.

Well get back to us when you do figure it out Dr. Smalley. Another
example of socio-political agendas trumping real science in the
so-called scientific community.

Mark Reiff