Alan Fletcher <a...@well.com> wrote:
> I sincerely doubt that a journal will pick it up, so it will most likely > be self-published (again) and generally ignored (again). > I think there is no chance any journal will publish this. Self-publication is fine. It will be ignored, but that does not matter either. Important people are aware of this, and they will act if the results are positive. As I have often said, a tight conspiracy is fine at this stage, as long as it includes People With Money. That is what we have been missing for the last 25 years. At this stage, we do not need support from general public or the readers of *Nature* magazine. Later, if it becomes generally known that cold fusion is real, the conventional energy industry will attack the research. At present, only the plasma fusion scientists attack it, because they are the only ones threatened by it. Once it becomes generally known that Rossi devices run at kilowatts for months at a time, at high temperatures, you can be sure that the oil companies, coal, wind, conventional fission, and other energy producers will come down on cold fusion like a ton of bricks. The record of the energy industry shows what will happen. The Koch brothers and other vested interests in energy spend hundreds of millions fighting progress in the energy sector, and working to discredit climatology and global warming research. They pay for political campaigns, advertising, and they work behind the scenes buying off politicians and journalists. Not only do they fight against regulating CO2, they work to prevent the reduction of conventional air pollution from things like sulfur, and to stop North Carolina and other states from regulating coal ash dumps which threaten the entire state with massive release of with toxic chemicals. They managed to stop the development of electric cars until the Nissan Leaf came out. They battle against efficiency in light bulbs, refrigerators and automobiles. They encourage science-illiterate journalists such as George Will, who recently wrote that replacing incandescent lights with CFL and LED lights, ". . . has no effect whatever on the planet, but it makes people feel good about themselves." http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/may/11/george-will/george-will-incandescent-light-bulb-has-no-effect-/ I am sure the industry will ramp up these attacks 10-fold, or 100-fold to stop cold fusion. They will do everything in their power to cut research funding, slander the researchers, and prevent commercialization. Fortunately, commercialization will be paid for by a small number of powerful, wealthy people who will not be swayed by advertising campaigns. Once the political attacks begin, we will definitely need the general public! At that point, everything will depend on politics, and on rival public relations campaigns. Without broad public support there is no chance cold fusion will be commercialized. I doubt that the energy industry has prevented research up until now. I doubt they even knew about it, other than a small number of energy industry people who visit LENR-CANR.org. For the last 25 years research was stymied by people such as Robert Park, the Jasons and others in the physics establishment. I know for a fact these people have been pulling strings and interfering in normal funding and journal publication. Heck, they brag about doing that! - Jed
