You need to hang with a better crowd. Bass is about 20 years older than I am and a pure academic type; I'm more of a generalist. The only real similarity you're noticing is that both of us write intelligently.
Infinite Energy Magazine is taken seriously. It's editor, Mallove, was one of the best and brightest at MIT who left MIT because of the manner in which cold fusion research was dealt with there. The French and Japanese, last I heard, were still spending money on this line of research, so that the first Pons-Fleischmann mobile you see will probably say Toyota or Mitsubishi on it rather than Ford or GM.
My brother occasionally attends antique car shows and auctions and tells me he's had a Stanley Steamer up to 105 mph in the Chicago area and had to shut it down for fear the old-tech tires wouldn't handle it very long; the idea of a steam-powered car isn't all that alien a thing.