Lennart Thornros <[email protected]> wrote:
> You believe that government is the ultimate answer to progress - that is > far from business as the moon from the sun . . . > I never said it is the ultimate answer, or the only thing needed. I said that government has made many essential contributions, such as railroads, steam ships, highways, the computer, nuclear power, weather forecasting, satellites, the GPS, the Internet, the laser, most fundamental physics and medical research funding, and so on. Bill Gates and many other successful businessmen agree with me, so perhaps you are wrong and I am right. You should consider that possibility. Contrary to you Jed, I do not judge Rossi. I say his behavior corresponds > with and inventor /entrepreneur. > It does, but it also correlates with a scammer or a crazy person. > Your darn calorimetry does not even enter the scene as a tool for seeing > the qualities of Rossi. > That is true. But it is the only metric that can tell us whether his reactor produces excess heat or not. And it answers that question decisively: there is no excess heat. There is no cold fusion reaction. Since his reactor does not work, he is of no interest to this field, and his lawsuit should be thrown out. > No it has nothing to do with engineering. The more time that elapses the > more I am inclined to believe it is 90% psychology and 10% personality > while from the beginning I had those numbers reversed. > What is 90% psychology? - Jed
