Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-25 Thread Alain Sepeda
I agree too that most of incentive in Science is status (science in real life is very like political in a way as my dear MP secretary explained to me). about removing older people from decision, I think it can be evil too. From decision maybe, but from discussion no. I see that older people

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-25 Thread James Bowery
The scientific approach, of course, would be two establish two groups, one a control group and the other a treatment group where the treatment is the proposed change, in this case the age limit. On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.comwrote: I agree too that most

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-25 Thread David Roberson
Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese I agree too that most of incentive in Science is status (science in real life is very like political in a way as my dear MP secretary explained to me). about removing older people from decision, I think it can be evil too. From decision maybe, but from

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-25 Thread Edmund Storms
Being one of the old people, I would like to share my impression of this issue. Most young people are ignorant, self-centered, and without much imagination. When they become old people, most remain ignorant, self- centered, and without imagination. Growing old simply gives a person who

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-25 Thread Lennart Thornros
Hi I signed up for this newsletter a few days ago. I guess I am answering the wrong way. Let me know the right way and I will do it correct. Just could not sit and listen to some of the the comments. Read Edmund Storms comment a couple of times. I am a rather old guy and I am working in the field

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-25 Thread Axil Axil
MARKET YOURSELF AND YOUR IDEAS It seems to me that a LENR system is a jigsaw puzzle make up of 10,000 pieces. How do you hold the interest of a customer of the LENR concept long enough for them to endure the hard job of learning about all those thousands of obscure pieces? Especially when the

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-25 Thread James Bowery
will be understood and we will all look back and see how the evidence was there the entire time. Dave -Original Message- From: Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com To: Vortex List vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wed, Sep 25, 2013 11:16 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-25 Thread Alain Sepeda
we can discuss on intrinsic qualities linked to age, and I would mostly agree. interpersonal differences are more important that the average changes in character with age... Experience, and time in the system have more impact than age... experience , and lack of experience have respective

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-25 Thread Axil Axil
Regarding: Experience, and time in the system have more impact than age Brian David Josephson, is a Welsh physicist. He became a Nobel Prize laureate in 1973 for the prediction of the eponymous Josephson Effect. You would normally assume that this fine and clever fellow would have some

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-25 Thread Alain Sepeda
@eskimo.com Sent: Wed, Sep 25, 2013 11:16 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese I agree too that most of incentive in Science is status (science in real life is very like political in a way as my dear MP secretary explained to me). about removing older people from

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Being one of the old people, I would like to share my impression of this issue. Most young people are ignorant, self-centered, and without much imagination. When they become old people, most remain ignorant, self-centered, and without imagination. .

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-25 Thread torulf.greek
I think this is inverted in the LENR community. TG On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:49:57 -0400, Jed Rothwell wrote: Edmund Storms wrote: Being one of the old people, I would like to share my impression of this issue. Most young people are ignorant, self-centered, and without much imagination.

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-25 Thread torulf.greek
Ooh! That was an anser to Jeds post. Not to Storms post. On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 01:27:04 +0200, torulf.gr...@bredband.net wrote: I think this is inverted in the LENR community. TG On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:49:57 -0400, Jed Rothwell wrote: Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Being one of

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-25 Thread a.ashfield
Obviously originality in physics is age related, but that is just a side effect when it comes to the gate keepers being tiresomely set in their ways. The reason for that is explained by Jerry Pournelle's iron law. Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-25 Thread James Bowery
To get back on track: Yes the Jasons started out as a way for young men to breakthrough the bureaucratic types and yes the Jasons has now been occupied by the likes of Nate Lewis, who was listed as third author of the Jasons report: Reducing DoD Fossil-Fuel

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-24 Thread Alain Sepeda
I agree. You make choices from the one available, from your data... and what you can do beyond you own person, of often null... the question is how much evil can do motivated people defending a Cause... Some says that since people are more dangerous than bandits. Milgram experiment show that

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-24 Thread Alain Sepeda
By the way trying to get biographical data on Rossi, I found that newenergytimes is cited many times against rossi... it seems Fringe site have a different meaning when it attack rossi... LENR-CANR is never cited, while there is no comparison about which is the most Fringe. so much lack of

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-24 Thread James Bowery
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: There is a similar unenlightened self-interest at work in preventing the proper development and deployment of LENR. It is intelligent in that sense and it has no incentive to

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: There is also opposition from many ordinary people and many stupid people at places like Wikipedia In all of these cases we're dealing with the incentives of social status more than authority structure. I agree. I would say it is ordinary primate

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-24 Thread James Bowery
Ironically: *JASON* is an independent group of scientists which advises the United States governmenthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States on matters of science and technology. *The group was first created as a way to get a younger generation of scientists*—that

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-24 Thread James Bowery
Something else from the Jasons Wikipedia articlehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JASON_(advisory_group) : In 2002, DARPA decided to cut its ties with JASON. DARPA had not only been one of JASON's primary sponsors, it was also the channel through which JASON received funding from other sponsors.

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-24 Thread James Bowery
Looking around for information on which Jasons might be more interested in LENR and national security than peer pressure, I found the study Reducing DoD Fossil-Fuel Dependencehttp://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/jason/fossil.pdf. Clearly the author(s) of this study would be great candidates to

[Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-23 Thread Alain Sepeda
Did you notice that Cold fusion was treated much more in a balanced way in Chinese and japanese . https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B8%B8%E6%B8%A9%E6%A0%B8%E8%9E%8D%E5%90%88 translated:

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
Years ago some Americans opposed to cold fusion tried to change this article, and they tried to ban LENR-CANR.org. A Japanese moderator asked them not to. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-23 Thread Edmund Storms
Of course LENR is denied by the West. The technology is a real and profound danger to the West. It would undermine the economics of the energy industries, on which the West is built, and it would give the Third world, including China and India, great advantage. The people in charge in the

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-23 Thread Alain Sepeda
It is hard for me to imagine that it is an intelligent desire to protect economic rent for few against the western population... Having worked in finance, in Internet bubble, I would rather blame it on individual weakness (selfishness, ambition, greed, self delusion, submission to easy) sewed to

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-23 Thread James Bowery
The homeostatic mechanisms of these systems embody a kind of intelligence that is all-too-frequently attributed to conspiracy. This is complicated by the fact that genuine conspiratorial behavior is sometimes involved. It is further complicated by the vague definition of conspiracy as the word

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-23 Thread Edmund Storms
I agree, stupidly is certainly at the core of the problem. I think the atom bomb provides a useful example of the situation. Early during WWII, scientists understood that Germany was working on the atom bomb and if they were successful, the power structure of the world would change.

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-23 Thread Edmund Storms
James, I have no idea what you mean to say here. No conspiracy is involved or implied. The effect of LENR on the world's economy is obvious to anyone who understands economics. This is reality, not some proposed crazy idea. On Sep 23, 2013, at 10:46 AM, James Bowery wrote: The

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Of course LENR is denied by the West. The technology is a real and profound danger to the West. It would undermine the economics of the energy industries, on which the West is built, and it would give the Third world, including China and India, great

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-23 Thread James Bowery
Sorry, Ed, I should have clarified that I wasn't referring to you as having posited a conspiracy theory. My abstractions may have been a bit too for the present conversation... On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: James, I have no idea what you mean to

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: These improvements have been drastic in some cases. LED lighting takes only about one-fifth of the electricity of incandescent lights. Illumination is a large fraction of total energy use. See: http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=99t=3 QUOTE: How much electricity is used for

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-23 Thread Edmund Storms
I agree Bob, the world is not managed in order to increase everyone's benefit. Jed tends to be an optimist about the future while I and apparently you as well are more of a realist. The world is in a mess. The West has created an unstable and unsustainable economic structure and many parts

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-23 Thread Alain Sepeda
my sad vision is there is no vision... some people think they are right, using bad heuristics. some follow them by selfish interest to get chocolate medal or to earn their life some follow just because they feel right when they follow some get convinced because they have no culture some shut up

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: For example, although the US is self-sufficient in energy, the cost is controlled by the world market. The U.S. is not self-sufficient in energy. We consume 97 quads. We import 24 quads (mainly oil) and export 10 quads (oil and coal). See:

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-23 Thread Edmund Storms
I agree with your description when applied to the details, Alain. However, the system is influenced by certain people based on their self interest and wisdom, or lack thereof. We see this situation play out throughout histoery. Some people use their power to improve while others use it to

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-23 Thread James Bowery
Good... perhaps I can try my approach from the angle opened up by the problem of writing off capital investments in a debt saturated western economy: The bailout of the large financial institutions was an example of the kind of 'panic' that results when a massive write-off of capital investments

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
Rob Dingemans manonbrid...@aim.com wrote: Dear Jed, On 23-9-2013 20:13, Jed Rothwell wrote: Furthermore, decreasing the cost of energy is likely to improve first world economies sooner than it improves third world countries or China, since we have more high tech, we have more ways to grow

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: There is a similar unenlightened self-interest at work in preventing the proper development and deployment of LENR. It is intelligent in that sense and it has no incentive to become enlightened about its self-interest. There are therefore two

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion on Wikipedia japanes and chinese

2013-09-23 Thread Rob Dingemans
Dear Jed, On 23-9-2013 20:13, Jed Rothwell wrote: Furthermore, decreasing the cost of energy is likely to improve first world economies sooner than it improves third world countries or China, since we have more high tech, we have more ways to grow the economy, and we import more energy per