Re: [Vo]:Dick Smith warns against investing in cold fusion
This is one reason I focus on promoting Excess Heat: Why Cold Fusion Research Prevailed by Charles Beaudette. My own interest in cold fusion was curtailed by my attempt to get a project going at the Roselle Street offices of Science Applications International Corporationhttp://maps.google.com/maps?ix=hebq=san+diego,+caum=1ie=UTF-8hq=hnear=0x80d9530fad921e4b:0xd3a21fdfd15df79,San+Diego,+CAgl=usei=tzMYT7bEGOjCsQKpip3CCwsa=Xoi=geocode_resultct=imageresnum=1ved=0CC4Q8gEwAA. This is where SAIC's nuclear plant stack monitoring development and manufacture was located and where much of SAIC's the Strategic Defense Initiative work was going on. I managed the software department and had developed the control software for the stack monitor. My effort was curtailed before 1989 was out by a CalTech graduate who had studied under Lewis. I had already over-extended my credibility by going beyond my expertise and suffered professional damage as a result. As a consequence I failed to follow up on cold fusion in subsequent years, turning instead to working with fusion researchers in general to draft legislative reform of fusion development by reorienting it toward objective prize awards for technical milestones independent of the technical approach takenhttp://www.oocities.org/jim_bowery/BussardsLetter.html . Had someone handed me Beaudette's book in 2000, even at that late date my life would have taken a very different turn. I regret that it took the Rossi controvery to get me to revisit the history of cold fusion research by reading Beaudette's essential book. On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: That worked out well. Good job Andrea! See: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/dick-smith-warns-against-investment-in-cold-fusion-technology/story-e6frg8y6-1226247794568 - Jed
[Vo]:Dick Smith warns against investing in cold fusion
That worked out well. Good job Andrea! See: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/dick-smith-warns-against-investment-in-cold-fusion-technology/story-e6frg8y6-1226247794568 - Jed
Re: [Vo]:Dick Smith warns against investing in cold fusion
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: That worked out well. Good job Andrea! See: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/dick-smith-warns-against-investment-in-cold-fusion-technology/story-e6frg8y6-122624779456http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/dick-smith-warns-against-investment-in-cold-fusion-technology/story-e6frg8y6-1226247794568 Six lines of text about a missed meeting is probably not going to pull back Rossi very much. The question is why Dick Smith said anything about it and why he didn't reschedule the meeting. Maybe someone should ask him what else he knows or thinks he knows.
RE: [Vo]:Dick Smith warns against investing in cold fusion
The article is not viewable in its entirety from your link, but if Vortexians would like access to the whole article, it can be accessed via a quick Google News search. I think that we're all still in wait-and-see mode regarding Rossi and Defkalion. The only thing that I have taken away from this is that MY's assertion (that Rossi could be pulling an investor fraud scheme) now has some evidenciary basis: Mr Millin, 67, told The Australian yesterday he had threatened to sue Mr Smith for $100m because he believed he had proved the technology worked and that he was owed the $200,000. He said Byron New Energy Charitable Trust had planned to use some of that money (understood to be $100,000) to buy the Australian rights to the technology. (http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/lure-of-cold-fusion-backfires/story-e6frg8y6-1226246813122) There now appears to be direct evidence of non-customer investments for country licensing for the first time since Ampenergo/Defkalion. When these factors are added to analysis of Rossi's actions, it renders arguments of he can't be scamming anyone, because his customers' money will be in escrow until they are satisfied it works totally and uttery meaningless. This is NOT to be taken as evidence that Rossi is running a scam. It is only meant to demonstrate that there is indeed possibility to take investors' money while they wait for the first sales to begin. I think that Rossi's (relatively) short, self-imposed timetables actually contraindicate a long-con. That said, I'm not yet jumping into the commodities markets, buying nickel and shorting oil. Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:55:20 -0500 From: jedrothw...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]:Dick Smith warns against investing in cold fusion That worked out well. Good job Andrea! See: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/dick-smith-warns-against-investment-in-cold-fusion-technology/story-e6frg8y6-1226247794568 - Jed
Re: [Vo]:Dick Smith warns against investing in cold fusion
Do you subscribe that newspaper? 2012/1/18 Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: That worked out well. Good job Andrea! See: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/dick-smith-warns-against-investment-in-cold-fusion-technology/story-e6frg8y6-122624779456http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/dick-smith-warns-against-investment-in-cold-fusion-technology/story-e6frg8y6-1226247794568 Six lines of text about a missed meeting is probably not going to pull back Rossi very much. The question is why Dick Smith said anything about it and why he didn't reschedule the meeting. Maybe someone should ask him what else he knows or thinks he knows. -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com
