Posted on 04/30/2011 8:56:32 AM PDT by Free Vulcan
If you do it on a large enough scale, you can destroy the careers of your nay sayers - maybe even severely damage major universities in the ensuing scandal.
Assuming one has an ax to grind.
IF this is real, and that’s a HUGE “IF,” the Arabs can eat their oil!
Apparently he has had actual scientists look at it. And he’s not soliciting funds from regular Joes. Then again, he’s being awfully secretive! Kinda smells. Jury still out, though.
The on-line database at LENR-CANR.org lists 3,400 papers on cold fusion written by 4,688 authors and co-authors, as of April 2006. Most of these papers have been positive, and none of the authors has benefited financially or otherwise. On the contrary, many of them have seen their careers stalled or ruined because they pursue this research. So there does not appear to be any motive to commit fraud, and it would be difficult for roughly 4,000 people to commit fraud and keep this fact secret.
The Obamas of the world will have to ban it or lose control of the sheeple. This is going to be a terrific problem for them. Here is the new technology they so claim they want but really don't. Best news I have read since Obama was elected.
Dump beer cans and orange peels into the flux capacitor?
It will be banned by Obama because he’ll claim it will threaten economic stability.
He has consistently to this point not been willing to share information or control of his product with any more investors.
I asses that to mean that the fewer people he has on board, the greater hit take will be (or loss if it flops).
Publicity and hype for his product he wants. Investors on his wagon, not so much. Bigger steak for him and if it crashes less damage to his reputation.
I think he is sincere ( even if this pans out like bubble memory in the 1980s).
He’s a fine charlatan I’ll give him that.
I can dig that report (PDF form) out and send you the link if you are interested. Basically, they are packing hydrogen atoms into the lattice work that makes up metals and use an electric current to induce the metal to tranmute into another element or the hygrogen to transmute into helium - cold fusion - releasing gobs of energy. The problem has always been repeatability. Rossi says he has solved the problem.
Looks as if Rossi has got a working winner.
GREAT article! Really illustrates the sad state of modern “science,” too...
I can well understand why he is staying away from the universities and college professors who would slam him and his ideas without even giving his experiment a glance.
When I first heard about him, probably ten years ago he had already had a couple of cold fusion experiments that had been producing for more than 60 days.
That’s when I decided to see if I could get his address and approach him. It took about a year and I was so disappointed when he turned me down but I am thrilled that he has succeeded in making everything work the way he said it could. The is the kind of thing that will lead to accomplishing many more “cannot be done” experiments.
I am fed up with brain dead scientists whose proclamations are automatically accepted as wisdom because these men are respectable, which to me means they refuse to step outside the walls of the scientific community.
reposting an earlier response http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2706552/posts?page=62#62
Yes, I can too. The "hot fusion" researchers undoubtedly feel their life-long careers threatened. Making cold fusion workable will amount to them having spent lifetimes (some of them, anyway) doing research that is soon going to be rendered inconsequential. Why build the unbelievably difficult-to-engineer Tokamak when you can build a cold fusion table-top size reactor for home use for just a few thousand dollars. And besides the loss of huge amounts of grant money, the worst thing of all perhaps, to see an electro-chemist beat the physicists at their own game. The horror of that!
There are these business contracts called "secrecy agreements" that apply in such cases. It lets businesses test the technology while protecting the intellectual property of the inventor (in cases where a patent has not yet issued, and the inventor is depending on "trade secrets".
"When Rossi publishes names of companies, and reporters can go to those businesses, see the devices in operation and interview the owners as to the effectiveness of the devices, it will be believable. Until then, it is snake oil."
Official commercial rollout date is October of this year.
He HAS gone to engineers and scientists. He has been working with the physics department of the University of Bologna in Italy (with Dr. Focardi) for several years.
All of his demos have been exclusively attended by science professionals, for the most part physicists, largely from Italy, but some from Sweden.
So his public "unveiling" is not exactly without scientific validation.
There’s not very many people who are willing to say that what they have been teaching for decades was wrong. I know you won’t find a one amongst the scientists who live on government grants or teach in US universities.
Yeah. Rossi’s critics say low energy fusion is impossible because it necessarily must violate Coulomb’s Law, which describes the repulsion of two positively charged protons. Impossible, so no point in looking into it or believing the people who say they have contradicting evidence.
Of course, it is also impossible for mankind to ever expect heavier-than-air craft to work either. And there are some crazy bastards out there who even say we’ll walk on the moon someday.
Yup. I found the posted tidbit either last night or this morning, but have been a bit busy. Glad someone posted it here, and thanks for the ping....otherwise I probably would have missed this thread.
Looks like we are in for "interesting times" (and for the physicists....that phrase used in the "Chinese sense").
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