OrionWorks wrote:
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.
I believe Mills has some sort of theoretical objection to CF. He does not believe it is fusion or fission, or that his own results are.
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.
I doubt this makes any difference. CF is not on the radar. There is no active opposition to it by the establishment, except from a tiny group of people such as Robert Park. The rest of the establishment pays no attention to CF and appears to be unaware that the research exists.
People worldwide have downloaded ~400,000 papers from LENR-CANR.org, so there is widespread knowledge, but there are millions of people out there, and I doubt many high-level establishment opinion makers have had the time or inclination to look at LENR-CANR. Whenever I have had occasion to communicate with such people (scientists, journalists or politicians), they express surprise and bewilderment. They always say, "I thought that stuff was thrown out back in 1989." These people have no reason to feign surprise or deceive me, so I assume they are being honest.
- Jed
