[Vo]:Wikepedia article improved / U. Utah library collection

[Jed Rothwell]

Here is part of a message I sent to Pierre Carbonnelle, who has 
worked tirelessly on the Wikipedia cold fusion article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion

Pierre,

I see that you have managed to upload a new version of the cold 
fusion article in Wikipedia. Good work! It is much better than the 
version it replaced.

On one hand, I hate to see you waste your talent on such an effort, 
but on the other hand I appreciate it. In particular, I appreciate it 
because the previous version of the article had no links to 
LENR-CANR.org and we had fewer visitors. [Only by a few percent.]

I have not heard anything about The Knol encyclopedia startup. 
Perhaps it has been delayed or abandoned. That would be a shame.

I shall refrain from making any comments or changes, to avoid 
upsetting the skeptics -- the poor dears are so sensitive!

I did make a few changes to "The Faraday-efficiency effect." . . . 
That entire section is a bunch of nonsense for the reasons given by 
Storms, and also because it only applies to open cells and there have 
been many closed cells, gas loaded cells and so on. The article is 
still unbalanced and absurd in many ways because it devotes so much 
space to this kind of thing and no space to important subjects such 
as the National Cold Fusion Institute (NCFI).

I am hoping to learn more about the NCFI soon because I plan to visit 
the University of Utah special collection on cold fusion. This is a 
room in the library with a great deal of information about the NCFI 
and other research. It has roughly 100 boxes full of papers, I 
gather. Some people I know are going through the material, and I am 
going to visit and give them a hand. I hope to get permission to scan 
and upload a bunch of this material to LENR-CANR.org -- as much as I 
can get my hands on. I do not know if the library will give 
permission, or whether the material is of general interest. We shall see.

- Jed