a.ashfield <[email protected]> wrote:
> Likewise, THE government expertise in energy is supposed to reside in the > Dept of Energy. > For most sources of energy that is true. The DoE does have top experts in coal, oil, and nuclear power and other conventional energy. > I have had an extended discussions with them about LENR and can confirm > that the universal consensus there is that LENR is impossible because there > is now way of overcoming the Coulomb barrier at low temperature. I have a > friend there that tries to bring up the subject, but he is told to shut up > as LENR is pseudo science. Experts are not immune from group-think. > You misunderstand. Those are not experts. Not with regard to cold fusion. They are probably experts about other sources of energy, or about physics. They think of themselves as experts on cold fusion, but actually they are ignorant. If they were experts they would know that cold fusion is real. They are also not experts on the scientific method, because they do not understand that experiments overrule theory. Just because people call themselves experts and just because many members of the public think they are experts, that does not actually make them experts. They have to be correct about critical aspects of the subject matter. - Jed
