[Kevmo]

The Cold Fusion Ping List

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/coldfusion/index?tab=articles

http://www.fcnp.com/commentary/national/10419-the-peak-oil-crisis-cold-fusion-redux.html

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2800077/posts

Unfortunately, if Rossi hired a bunch of actors to pretend to be the customer reps, created an elaborate year-long special-effects-derived series of demos, bribed, hypnotised or otherwise fooled Focardi, Levi, Kullander, Essen, Bianchini, Stremmenos and convinced a bunch of Greek crooks to set up a dummy company called Defkalion to pretend to fight with him over the non-existent eCat, to perpetuate the illusion and spin it off into a competing mirror-scam and convinced his former partners to set up another company called Ampenergo to pretend that they had a contract for The Americas for a substantial sum or that they just did this with no proof because they have worked with Rossi and trust him because he’s such a fine fellow, arranged for Piantelli, Miley and a host of others to try to fool the world into thinking that cold fusion was real, got NASA, SPAWAR, The Defense Threat Reduction Agency and The Defense Intelligence Agency to say nice things about the field, got Bushnell to make a fool of himself, sold his profitable company to his ex-partners in order to spend that wealth on a multi-million dollar scam; certain that once he got all the above ducks in a row he would pretend to sell the first device and then reel in the true target of his dastardly plan – the second (this time genuine) buyer of a 1MW plant that will net him $2 million dollars until they want their money back or sucker a $100 million dollar deal under the table because he has experience in pulling the wool over all these idiotic eyes and knows that they will just take his word for it and not want to test if his 1MW plant can heat a small village without truckloads of coal or oil or a big fat electric cable coming into the container from beneath the floor (no you can’t lift the carpet!) and that, in order to pull this off, Rossi had to risk discovery by interviewing all the people he subsequently fooled so that he could only invite the gullible Professors and not the brilliant anonymous posters on the Internet who surely would have found him out – then all bets are off and I’m with the guys who think that Rossi is an idiot and they are all geniuses .

[Kevmo]

The Cold Fusion Ping List

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/coldfusion/index?tab=articles

http://www.fcnp.com/commentary/national/10419-the-peak-oil-crisis-cold-fusion-redux.html

[allmendream]

The only cold fusion I foresee happening in the near future is the fusion of your cranium with your rectal cavity.

Do you do anything on FR OTHER THAN pimp this crazy crap?

[Moonman62]

The amount of heat being reported and apparently verified by outside observers is simply too much for any known chemical reaction .

Rossi's scientist friend, Levi, says the ecat should run for at least 24 hours to rule out a chemical reaction.

[Moonman62]

Following the cold fusion furor of 20 years ago in which the scientific establishment declared that low energy fusion was not believable, scattered pockets of ill-funded scientists continued cold fusion research, while the world of big science continued working on multi-billion dollar fusion projects involving magnetic containment and lasers.

Muon catalyzed fusion is a cold fusion that's been accepted by science for over 50 years. The author isn't very good at research.

[NewinTexsas]

"There is a fascinating drama taking place over in Bologna, Italy involving a three-time scammer with a fake engineering degree who claims to be an engineer by the name of Andrea Rossi and a physicist, Sergio Focardi who tried the same scam in 1995, who say they have developed an entirely new source of cheap, clean, energy."

fixed.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “Cheap, pollution-free energy could, in theory, reset the clock on global warming.” <<

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This statement kills the article for anyone with a reasonable level of understanding.

Believing in the tooth fairy has vastly more basis in science than global warming. How can a daydream believer be qualified to write on this?

[PapaBear3625]

High costs for fossil fuels would be a major incentive, but simply re-provisioning 7 or 8 billion people would be a major job. This would suggest that higher oil prices will remain a factor in our lives no matter what happens with other sources of energy.

I disagree about the high oil prices. Oil prices are sensitive to demand, and relatively small changes in demand or supply can have large effects on prices.

One trend I'm seeing is conversion of diesel trucks to run on Liquified Natural Gas (which currently has a price equivalent to about $2/gal diesel). The big issue involves fueling stations: it's a chicken/egg problem where truck stops don't want to install NG capabilities if there's no NG-based trucks, and trucking firms want fueling capabilities there before investing in conversion. But the infrastructure is slowly being built up and may reach critical mass in the next one or two years along some routes.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Cheap, pollution-free energy could, in theory, reset the clock on global warming

I hope not. We're in an interglacial period. If it stops being warm, we'll be on our way to being buried under a mile thick ice again.