Jed wrote: <snip> This obviously is one of the major problems holding back cold fusion. Many > leaders, including oil company executives, honestly do not feel comfortable > judging calorimetry or mass spectroscopy. In 1989 I assumed such people > generally have a technical background, but I have learned otherwise. These > people really do rely on their staff scientist experts, and most of the > staff scientists, unfortunately, dismiss CF without bothering to read the > papers. It does not occur to the executives to question the staff > judgement, or to probe, or to read the papers themselves. > > At least, that is the impression I get from my infrequent contacts with the > execs, people at EPRI, university presidents, and others.
Jed makes a good point, and a good response to Ed's post about the gassing in Iraq, and concerns about the competency of the current administration. I admit that datum upset me. We blunder forth with incomplete knowledge and growing power. As for CF, Jed and Ed have created the best antidote to ignornace in the LENR-CANR website as evidenced by the hundreds of thousands of downloads. Many of these have been for Ed's excellent tutorials, but one doesn't know where all the rest quietly went into whose minds. It could be transforming. Mike Carrell
