Jean de Lagarde wrote:
For more than three months since a large exchange in the beginning of
march 2005, we have not heard about IESI. Have they been visited by
competent people which coud give us news of this supposed fantastic
breakthrough or does it exist non disclosure agreements that prevent them
to talk ?
I have heard that competent people have visited, and they were favorably
impressed, but they have not written any reports yet as far as I know. Who
knows what to make of it? I do not know whether these people signed
non-disclosure agreements or not. They have not disclosed anything to me,
except that they were favorably impressed. The thing is, they wouldn't tell
me, and I wouldn't care to listen in any case, because I have no use for
secrets. I do not want to hear confidential, semi-confidential, or even
slightly confidential information. If I am not free to publish every detail
on LENR-CANR.org or here on Vortex, I do not want to know about it.
I am interested in two kinds of information:
1. Academic science. This must be fully open and transparent. If any part
is kept secret, it isn't valid academic science.
2. Technology for which a patent has been applied for, or technology
already in the public domain. If any part of a patent application is kept
secret, the patent will be ruled invalid.
There are plenty of other kinds of intellectual property, such as trade
secrets, but I personally have no use for such things, since I am trying to
promote cold fusion and hand out accurate information about it. Telling
readers that a secret process exists is not helpful or useful.
Or is it dead ? We would be happy to know
It does not seem dead, but until it is proved with independent replications
it is not alive, either. It is in limbo, along with dozens of other claims.
- Jed
