I think we need to IGNORE the kneejerkers ~ they're probably secret leftwingtards still working for the Obama 'truth squad' .
We discovered those guys in early 2008 ~ their purpose was to go to various chat boards, get admitted, then when a political issue came up present the Obama party line, or argue with those who disagreed.
Bunch of them came to Free Republic, and got HOOKED! They still did the argue bit ~ after all, when you're getting paid a few bucks to do that, you do that. At the same time they are rather stick in the muds who would rather talk about a static political environment ~ and that carries over into their attitude toward emergent science and engineering. They view it as a competitor of things like paving roads, paying welfare, ObamaKKKare and various other Democrat and leftwingtard nostrums and notions.
Nancy Pelosi, growing up in a mobster's home ~ her dad, although mayor of baltimore was also a siciliano protectore ~ has it in spades. She simply does not agree with the idea that the future can and will be different. For her there's a pie of a certain size, and it never grows, and it never gets better.
Once I discovered the Italian government was beginning to prosecute the mobsters who'd foisted the windmill scam off on half the world, it became pretty obvious pretty quickly that WE didn't have to put up with that crowd, nor their friends, even the Obama truth squad that still show up on FR!
So, I push back.
Kevmo seems to be on the right side of the LENR quest/question! So are others. The critics here appear to have nebulous motives. Maybe they imagine the gasoline engine popped full blown from the mind of a single genius, carburetor and all ~ so any application that doesn't do that too just can't ever work. (clue, the gasoline engine took a very long time to fully develop and that work continues ~ I used to work in an engine factory myself).
Having started out as a math major I've always kept my eye on what the big boys are doing in that field in regards to providing some order to our understanding of the universe ~ their latest multi generational task is to figure out how many dimensions there are ~ beyond the 4 we knew of for so long ~ and where they are. LENR looks to be one of those 'concepts' backed up by thousands of experiments by tens of thousands of smart guys working at the atomic level where just maybe some of them have found some shadows in a 5th dimension ~ or, given some of the more anomalous results, something more than 'shadows' in a 6th even.
The critics unable to think beyond 4 dimensions are always going to dispute discoveries over on that side, or the other one, or maybe all the way out to 11 dimensions ~ George Gamow wrote a book explaining where this was going most of a century ago BTW. He, alas, lived in a time when we didn't have the mathematical tools to wrap some meat around the extra dimension concepts ~ so his musings and speculation weren't as well grounded as was his hard science, but he thought in terms of atomic particles and as the big boys are finding, some of those dimensions may be 'wrapped up' and available for use only in those small sizes where Gamow had his mind.
People who look into Gamow's theory on tunneling find out there's a lot more to this business than atom bombs and stars!
I am skeptical of Rossi, and there are tons of reasons available.
That doesn't mean that his experiment is a fake. It may be working without the fakery of carnival sideshows, and may be the 'next step' in the technical evolution of mankind.
HOWEVER, what I am most 'skeptical' about is whether those whose WEALTH and POWER depends on OUR DEPENDENCY will allow this technology to be used, and even if they do, It will not be FOR FREE.
I guess the bottom line is that while there may be a new device that produces more energy OUT than IN, There still is NSTAAFL, mainly because if LUNCH WAS FREE, then there would be NONE OF THESE...
