Modi government urged to revive cold fusion

ZeeNews ^ | November 17, 2014 | Indo-Asian News Service

[Gasshog]

I’ll believe it when it can power a Delorean.

It doesnt have to time travel, just run down the street.

[Kenny Bunk]

I am afraid LENR must join other scientific hoaxes: E.G., the inane theory that many diseases in humans are caused by microscopic entities called "Microbes;" the idiotic premise that malaria is transmitted by mosquitos; or that "waves" can transmit sounds through the atmosphere.

That chap Rossi? Fuggedaboutit. Just another dumb Marconi.Let's get back to some real science!

[uglybiker]

....just run down the street.

Running on beer and banana peels. :-P

[Wonder Warthog]

"It might not have been that way, but for the fact that the guy who used to post most of the LENR threads, took all of the naysaying personally. He sort of soured the discussions about this technology here."

Others posted CF threads, including me. All got the same treatment, unless it happened to be posted by one of the kneejer skeptics.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Seems to me the biggest problem with cold fusion is replicating the experiments. What say you."

I say "no".

Successful replications have been done, repeatedly. CF suffers from a witch hunt mentality engendered from the start by the physics community, and highly visible here and pretty much everywhere that CF has gotten the slightest positive commentary.

"With all the interest in alternative energies cold fusion can never get the big investors the way crap projects like Solyndra do. I think word is out on Wall Street that cold fusion is cute but flaky when it comes to repeating the process."

WHAT "big investors"?? Solyndara and others got government subsidies, as did "hot fusion",the latter to the tune of several hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars.

And the "deep eco-freak" mindset literally hates the idea of fusion (even hot)....one quote one commenter:

"...successfully harnessing fusion would be like giving an AK-47 to a monkey...."

[Normandy]

Now Bill Gates is showing interest in the field:

http://www.e-catworld.com/2014/11/18/university-of-verona-statement-gates-visit-was-to-investigate-lenr/

[Windflier]

I am afraid LENR must join other scientific hoaxes: E.G., the inane theory that many diseases in humans are caused by microscopic entities called "Microbes;" the idiotic premise that malaria is transmitted by mosquitos; or that "waves" can transmit sounds through the atmosphere.

I tried the veal and it was excellent. Hope you'll be here all week :-)