> From: R.O.Cornwall > > Sanity. Sanity. Hallelujah! > > Not an ad hominem in site! > > "For the times they are ah chang......ING!" > >> From Mike Carrell >> >> My impression is that there are a few continuing efforts >> toward commecial applications, but because of the lack of >> patent protection these are proceeding in secrecy and slowly. >> >> In the CF world there is no equivalent to Mills, with a >> published theory [correct or not], a body of patents, a >> series of experimental demonstrations, published papers, and >> substantial private funding. Pieces of this exist in the CF >> world, but not a coherent package with a driving strategy. >> The ability of Mills to sell his vision, attract investors >> and a substantial board of directors is not a trivial >> accomplishment. In the history of innovation there have been >> a small number of men who combine the necessary >> characteristics... Edison, Eastman, Land, Hewlett/Packard, >> Goodyear, Ford, Gates, Sarnoff, Westinghouse... One can >> argue about the mertis of these and others, but they were >> catalytic to their times and created industries. The the >> techies were essential but lacked other qualities: Tesla, >> Armstrong, Farsnworth.... >> >> Mills seems to feel that his theoretical work is complete >> enough to recruit partners for commercial development. The >> same is not true for the CF world, where the set of phenomena >> is still not clear or *strong* effects replicable enough to be >> a basis for commercial development. I hope someone can falsify >> the preceding sentence. >> >> Mike Carrell
There is also a political component to the arduous development cycle as well that can't be ignored. I believe Mike Carrell has also mentioned the fact that Dr. Mills as gone to some length to distance his company's efforts from those coming from the Cold Fusion community, not wishing to allow the "BLP process" to be in any way associated with CF. For better or worse, BLP would prefer to slug it out alone. Politically speaking it's looking like it may have been a wise decision. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com
