Development isn't, commercialization is. Not just CF but anything that shows any possibility of destabilizing the world economy by attacking one of the main support pillars (oil/energy, cheap labor, raw materials, commerce). Just as the argument that there can be no other intelligent life forms in the galaxy, it is a hard argument to sell that all the creative & resourceful imaginations on this planet have not throughout history created viable alternative energy sources. Probability and chaos theory alone should be sufficient leave that door open. Couple that with observed self organization of chemical structures following nothing more than basic entropy the bell curve shifts it from "probable" to "likely".
A very intoxicating theory has stuck with me ever since being exposed to it. What if we are the architects of our own reality? Not so much exploration and discovery but actual creation through true belief? Hard to prove unless you believed you could, eh? Ha ha Certainly would explain the exotics from the likes of Schauberger, Tesla, Keeley that have never been able to be replicated. Extend that to telekinesis, faith healing, miracles... Is it that surprising that the harder we seem to look the more we find almost exactly what we were looking for? Conceive it, believe it, achieve it. -john -----Original Message----- From: Michael Foster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 1:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: CF Suppression? Is cold fusion being actively suppressed? Although I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories, I believe it is. Is it the big oil companies? Nah, they couldn't possibly be more bored with the idea. Besides, any company that size usually moves and makes decisions with the speed of a glacier. If CF becomes a viable energy source, they'll just be caught with their pants down. I think there might be cold fusion suppression activity among government scientists doing nuclear research of various types. You have those scientists who are simply arrogant and lazy enough to believe it just can't be true, because it goes against the tenets of their standard model religion. No amount of experimental evidence will convince them. That's not what I'm talking about. What I mean is active suppression of LENR research and information for fear of its being used to make fissionable material by nuclear transmutation. I came to suspect this possiblity for a number of reasons. I was already a little suspicious about this when I read recently about cluster impact fusion (CIF) a few months ago. At first, it seemed that credible scientists were, in effect, going to make a case for LENR. Papers were being published in mainstream scientific journals. CIF seemed to be an established fact. Nuclear transmutation was happening on the metal targets of the charged heavy water clusters. Suddenly, a whole bunch of scientists made a joint state- ment to the effect that the data were flawed and it couldn't possibly be working. End of episode. Did anyone else find this a little funny? You know,....just a little......funny. Another thing that makes me wonder is the fact that individuals can no longer buy heavy water or deuterium. I mean, what do they think we're going to do, use a 100gm of heavy water as a neutron moderator in our teeny tiny nuclear reactors? I was rather upset when Jed told us about that retired scientist who couldn't buy any heavy water to do some CF research. And finally, I had a personal experience a long, long time ago that confirms that anything that smacks of cheap isotope separation is not smiled upon. I had a student job at the U.S. Bureau of Mines when I was in college. Working there was a much better education on a number of subjects than any of my college classes could have been. My job was sort of general lab assistant and was mostly a sinecure. I had a lot of free time to mess around and there were a lot equipment and materials. I had a nutty idea about isotope separation. No expensive uranium hexafluoride centrifuging and diffusion for me. I'm a cheap guy. So I asked my boss if I could do a little experimenting on the side with this idea. He said it was OK with him as long as it didn't interfere with what he wanted done. I couldn't get any uranium because the nuclear section was more or less off limits to me, and besides the melting point is too high for the equipment I had available. To make a long story short, I was apparently able to get significant concentration of Pb207 from the natural isotope mix using the molten metal and a simple electromagnetic technique. I will definitely not give the details here for fear of another MIB visit. Word spread about my little "science fair project". I came in one day and my entire setup was gone. I was called to the office of the head of the facility whose title I can't recall... director? He told me I was not to waste taxpayer time and money on my personal projects. I thought that was kind of funny since most of the scientists spent a lot of time asleep at their lab benches. There were a couple of men in his office. They didn't work there. They didn't actually have black suits and sunglasses, but they really looked out of place and unfriendly. I was prepared to take this order at face value until the director told me not to discuss what I had done with anyone. The two MIB said nothing and just sort of glared at me. A good argument against my little "conspiracy theory" would be that Claytor, et. al., continue with their research. I know there are quite a few lurkers on this list who work or have worked at government nuclear research facilities. I've had a number of off-list emails from some of them. I'm sure others on the list have as well. Now couldn't one of you lurkers give us just a little bitty hint about this? M. _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!
