From: Bob Cook
Ø If the authors are embarrassed as has been suggested they should be, I doubt they will come to Vortex-L for consultation. First things first. The real problem is that there is a fabulous Library of LENR experiments, readily available to consult, and free to explore. They should go there first and study it. Jed Rothwell has put countless hours and his own funds over 25 years to memorialize the efforts of dozens of scientists and thousands of papers. None of these experiments going back to 1989 – representing 25 years of blood, sweat and tears - has demonstrated that neutrons are a relevant factor in LENR and none of them has shown that gamma radiation is a relevant factor. One other theory which focused on the neutron modality – that of Widom and Larsen, has gotten lots of exposure with no experimental backing – and the Swedes failed to acknowledge it, indicating they were unaware of prior work. The real problem, therefore, is ignorance (and/or arrogance) to think that this body of work which we all have benefited from - has no meaning. Newcomers to the field, possibly desiring to make a positive impression on the European Aerospace establishment went to a fair amount of effort, but with no supporting data – to build a theory which has as its very foundation a dependency on neutrons. Take the neutrons away – they have nothing at all. They are essentially thumbing their nose on the everything that has transpired since 1989, so yes… they should be embarrassed, and yes, they should have done their homework first. Instead, they burden us with yet another useless document that is dead on arrival, full of errors and very similar to W-L but without attribution of their contribution. Of course – all of this criticism can change with supporting experiments showing neutrons, which they say they are prepared to do - but until this work is actually done, it makes no sense for us on vortex to keep up this bickering and recrimination, in defense of their deep ignorance about the field. Face it – they are snubbing and ignoring 25 years of LENR history – and it becomes imperative that they must provide their own data, not more idle speculation. (we get enough of that here without their help). J Jones
