Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: You know very well that Rossi has never shown the slightest inclination to do anything like that. Many variants of that idea have been proposed to Rossi and he has refused them all . . . This is true. He has emphatically refused. I agree there is no chance

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Energy Liberator
On 23/12/11 14:40, Jed Rothwell wrote: I am pretty sure the reason is because he wants to keep a low profile. He wants enough people to believe it is real to attract customers, but not so many that it attracts competition or attention from the authorities. He does not want the DoE to think it

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
Energy Liberator wrote: I can see the reasoning behind that but what baffles me is if that is the case then why even set up in the US? Because he like the U.S. He likes being here. And he had terrible experiences in Italy. There is a lot to like about the U.S. despite the DoE. - Jed

RE: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
From Jed: ... I am pretty sure the reason is because he wants to keep a low profile. He wants enough people to believe it is real to attract customers, but not so many that it attracts competition or attention from the authorities. He does not want the DoE to think it is real. I

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: In Rossi's case, trying to maintain a low profile is a delicate business tactic that has limited shelf life. Yup. It is a delaying tactic. [This] will fall apart as the technology essentially validates itself via through

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Mary Yugo
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: In Rossi's case, trying to maintain a low profile is a delicate business tactic that has limited shelf life. Yup. It is a delaying tactic. Can you

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: Can you think of a recent spectacular innovation that has been marketed by deliberately acting in a way that suggests it can't and doesn't work? Toyota's plug in Prius. Toyota kept saying existing model is not designed for plug-in mode; they do not

RE: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
From Mary Yugo: Can you think of a recent spectacular innovation that has been marketed by deliberately acting in a way that suggests it can't and doesn't work? By acting in a way that suggests investor fraud? It's all in the eye of the beholder. The point I think you gloss over

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Harry Veeder
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: In Rossi's case, trying to maintain a low profile is a delicate business tactic that has limited shelf life. Yup. It is a delaying tactic. [This]

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: Can you think of a recent spectacular innovation that has been marketed by deliberately acting in a way that suggests it can't and doesn't work? Toyota's plug in Prius. Toyota kept saying existing model is not designed for plug-in mode; they do not recommend it; it will take a

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Mary Yugo
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:21 PM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: It's all in the eye of the beholder. The point I think you gloss over is the apparent fact that Rossi is not deliberately (or overtly) ...acting in a way that suggests investor fraud. Rossi is

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Mary Yugo
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: I wrote: Can you think of a recent spectacular innovation that has been marketed by deliberately acting in a way that suggests it can't and doesn't work? Toyota's plug in Prius. Toyota kept saying existing model is

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: It's all in the eye of the beholder. The point I think you gloss over is the apparent fact that Rossi is not deliberately (or overtly) ...acting in a way that suggests investor fraud. Rossi is instead employing passive-tactics

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Mary Yugo
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: That's an interesting idea. Good point. I doubt he fears this, but he might. Rossi and Defkalion have been jerking well meaning and interested people around by the thousands (or more) for the better part of the year

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: Dreadful example. Nobody doubted for an instant that a plug in Prius was coming soon. Soon? How soon? What was coming? Toyota introduced it ahead of schedule, after downplaying expectations and withholding specifications. That ploy is often used in

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: Rossi and Defkalion have been jerking well meaning and interested people around by the thousands (or more) for the better part of the year and all you can do is come up with ridiculous explanations and defenses for these people? You call this a

RE: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
From Harry: I suspect he does not want to take the risk of an independently tested ecat behaving erractically. He fears the published results would make his commercial promises look silly, even if the basic energy producing claims are validated. From Jed: That's an interesting

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Mary Yugo
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 1:52 PM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: I If you were a competitor, such as someone with affiliations with the fossil fuel industry, a mega-industry that obviously wouldn't want Rossi's eCats to survive, if one of those individuals or

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: Rossi is instead employing passive-tactics indirectly... The Allies knew the Germans thought this, so they conducted Operation Fortitude to reinforce that expectation. The point I was trying to make, and forgot to make, is that deception is often passive. You persuade your enemy

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Mary Yugo
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: You do not know what you are talking about. Well, that's a good argument. So you ARE going to buy a 1 MW reactor?!? I am astounded. I am not buying a leaky claptrap collection of 100 or so badly assembled, messy

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Mary Yugo
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: You can say their strategy is stupid, or it will probably fail for thus and such reason, or that you would do things differently. But the notion that it has to be justified by your standards -- or by some universal

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: That is the ultimate in silliness. If anyone develops a robust example of cold fusion/LENR power generation, it will sell world wide better than hotcakes with strawberry syrup and whipped cream on top ever did. NOTHING -- not regulation, oil interests,

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Mary Yugo
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Even today, doctors in the US kill hundreds of thousands of patients every year because they do not bother to wash their hands or sterilize properly. They are not ignorant. They are lazy, unprofessional and uncaring,

RE: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
Jed sez: ... It is just a matter of paying a bigger bribe. This is how US industry has worked since 1865, and the building of the transcontinental railroad. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I have no choice but to do both. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Mary Yugo
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: That is the ultimate in silliness. If anyone develops a robust example of cold fusion/LENR power generation, it will sell world wide better than hotcakes with strawberry syrup

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Mary Yugo
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: That is the ultimate in silliness. If anyone develops a robust example of cold fusion/LENR power

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: You insist on comparing a supposed cold fusion/LENR robust power power plant to Netflix, IBM, and Edison. But that's silly. Because I believe the effect is real. Naturally, you do not think so because you do not think it is real. You have to imagine my

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 02:44 PM 12/23/2011, Mary Yugo wrote: Aseptic technique may be imperfect in many places but hundreds of thousands of death due to negligence? Cite please. And not some whacko website, please. http://www.safepatientproject.org/2007/05/cdc_publishes_sobering_stats_o.html In a newly released

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 02:53 PM 12/23/2011, Alan J Fletcher wrote: At 02:44 PM 12/23/2011, Mary Yugo wrote: Aseptic technique may be imperfect in many places but hundreds of thousands of death due to negligence? Cite please. And not some whacko website, please.

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: Of course, Jed was 13 short of hundreds of thousands -- but that's just Hospitals. Add in nursing hoems,clinics, doctor's offices Hey, I was just an order of magnitude low. I always say, what's an order of magnitude among friends? In my experience,

RE: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Zell, Chris
I have to feel stunned by the naivete of some of you. Major corporations are entirely capable of murder or theft. I suggest you read up on John Perkins and his book Confessions of an Economic Hitman in which he cites various coincidences of third world leaders who met with an accident after

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: I am really curious: who do you think tried to stop FF . . . Oh for crying out loud. Tried to stop? Really?!? Look, they did not try -- they succeeded! I know exactly who they are. Everyone knows who they are! I have met the leading members of the

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
Zell, Chris chrisz...@wetmtv.com wrote: Or perhaps you could speak with minor officials in Florida who were documenting fraud by Too Big To Fail banks - until their superior told them that their services were no longer required... and afterward have NO ONE got to jail for what could be the

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: Such a thing would be more revolutionary and would gain faster acceptance and more interest than anything done in the last hundred years. If you believe that, you do not know

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Vorl Bek
Jed Rothwell says: Do you think OPEC and Big Coal will be thrilled? You think they will roll over and play dead? They will demand that it be banned. And when the Chinese and Japanese and everybody with a brain starts churning out ecats, will Big Coal knock on their door and demand that they

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Look, they did not try -- they succeeded! [...] WHO tried to stop PF's first efforts? HOW did they do it? So, you say cold fusion research was stopped. It has produced nothing. $200 million spent (Nagel's

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Mary Yugo
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: Of course, Jed was 13 short of hundreds of thousands -- but that's just Hospitals. Add in nursing hoems,clinics, doctor's offices Hey, I was just an order of magnitude low.

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate? 17C London

2011-12-23 Thread Alan J Fletcher
17th Century London : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2070102/Royal-Society-exhibition-John-Graunts-1679-medical-stats-reveal-Londoners-causes-death.html http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/12/05/article-0-0F0E28C60578-628_964x1085.jpg Consumption and Cough is in the lead, at 44,487

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Mary Yugo
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Read history. Learn something. Don't ask ignorant questions. I uploaded 1,200 papers for a reason, so that people can learn things. Don't ask me to spoon-feed you every morsel of information. Do your own damn homework.

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 04:22 PM 12/23/2011, Mary Yugo wrote: Ah... but you see, not every infection in a hospital is preventable, even with the most meticulous technique. While a few doctors are slobs and a few hospital are trash pits, most in the US are not. People get infections from their relatives and

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Mary Yugo
Some is avoidable, some not. The problem is less with doctors and nurses than it is with aides of various types, janitors, food workers, and all the other less educated hospital staff. On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: At 04:22 PM 12/23/2011, Mary Yugo

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 04:35 PM 12/23/2011, Mary Yugo wrote: Some is avoidable, some not. The problem is less with doctors and nurses than it is with aides of various types, janitors, food workers, and all the other less educated hospital staff. Hospital Infections: Preventable and Unacceptable WSJ 2008 :

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 04:35 PM 12/23/2011, Mary Yugo wrote: Some is avoidable, some not. The problem is less with doctors and nurses than it is with aides of various types, janitors, food workers, and all the other less educated hospital staff. 5 google clicks seems to disprove your hypothesis. eg

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Ruby r...@hush.com wrote: I was seriously bummed out to hear the Navy researchers being forced to stop their work due to too much publicity. My question to Vortex members is this: What is the best way to advocate for clean energy from this reaction, which we choose to call cold fusion?

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Regarding the comments about SPAWAR here: http://newenergytimes.com/v2/sr/Swartz/Mitchell-Swartz-Cold-Fusion-Researcher.shtml As far as I know, Krivit had no role in the demise of the project. No one has complained about him, or mentioned him. The Fox News report was the straw the broke the

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-22 Thread Harry Veeder
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Ruby r...@hush.com wrote: The public needs to be informed so that we will have the capacity to demand this technology, and not let it be derailed again.  What do you think is the best way to do this? Seek out mainstream journalists and explain to them why this

RE: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-22 Thread Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint
Best: Persuade Rossi to sell (or rent) you a single e-Cat ASAP. I'll contribute $ to that effort. Then have competent engineers instrument it and do a proper test. If done properly, and it's a successful test, you won't have any problems with advocacy. -m From: Ruby

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-22 Thread Mary Yugo
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: Best: Persuade Rossi to sell (or rent) you a single e-Cat ASAP. I’ll contribute $ to that effort. Then have competent engineers instrument it and do a proper test. If done properly, and it’s a

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-22 Thread Terry Blanton
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: You're more likely to be able to purchase an invisible unicorn than a single e-cat to test. Do I get my choice of colors? T

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-22 Thread Harry Veeder
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: You're more likely to be able to purchase an invisible unicorn than a single e-cat to test. Do I get my choice of colors? T Tinker Bell can see