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Boulder City man misses fund-raising goal for booth at clean energy summit
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LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
There'll be no nuclear reactions at the National Clean Energy Summit.
A Boulder City man trying to buy a booth at the upcoming event missed his Monday fund-raising goal.
Gary Vesperman, a retired technical writer and environmentalist, hoped to raise $3,500 for an exhibit booth at the summit, scheduled for Aug. 30 at Aria. He planned to use the display to promote alternatives to fossil fuels and renewable energy, including a power cell fueled with the radioactive metal thorium.
Vesperman is helping inventors nationwide get the word out about their devices. His "Energy Inventions" booth would have allowed summit attendees, including event cosponsor and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to test and observe some of the devices.
The Review-Journal featured Vesperman in its Sunday Business section, but no one stepped up with aid before the late Monday deadline, Vesperman said Tuesday. It's a disappointment for Vesperman, who said the government should pay engineers and scientists to test some of the inventions, rather than giving them unemployment benefits.
Vesperman said his ideas went beyond a booth at the summit.
"My vision was to fill up dozens of empty commercial buildings in Henderson and Las Vegas with huge enterprises developing and manufacturing energy inventions," he said Tuesday. "It is such a shame to lose this opportunity to personally present to (Reid) a realistic way to create thousands of clean-energy invention jobs."
Contact reporter Jennifer Robison at jrobison@reviewjournal.com or 702-380-4512.
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What the world needs is more Atomic Power plants, not puny little expensive experiments in scarce power that grind down mankind. Environmentalist Vesperman is on the wrong track. He is wearing blinders. Cheap, clean, plentiful power can only be produced by Atomic Power plants. Of course power-mad politicians like Harry Reid are against this, because they want power over the people, instead of letting people empower themselves with plenty of Atomic Power. There is a Harry Reid room at the Atomic Museum in Las Vegas. Get it?
Obviously his ideas had NO COMMERCIAL VALUE.
Hey! How about COLD FUSION? Why not try that again .
And Harry doesn't want real solutions, he wants greenie solutions regardless of how impractical and costly. How about mandating LED bulbs instead of CFL bulbs, Harry? Sure they cost $20 each, but isn't that the purpose of the Congress? Doesn't the Constitution grant the power to Congress to regulate light bulbs? Harry? Read the Tenth Amendment, Harry.
Look Gary--if you can't get $3500 together as the price of admission--how are you going to get $10k together for Harry's gratuity?