Walter Faxon wrote:
Surely after 17 years of research there should now be a way to produce an absolutely bulletproof demonstration of cold fusion for these guys.
There are several ways, but I doubt they would believe any of them, because it takes some expertise to understand what is going on in a cold fusion experiment. For example, hypothetically they might go to the Spring8 facility to watch an Iwamura experiment, but it does not look like much and the results show up in the data days or months later.
Never mind the technical complications. Every problem can be worked out if you're willing to actually do the work . . .
If that were true, we would have plasma fusion power reactors by now. Roughly $100 billion has been spent on that research. We would also have Josephson-junction computers, practical artificial intelligence, and a cure for AIDS.
. . . in consultation with Randi's reps.
I doubt these people are qualified. If they are not already convinced by the published results, they are definitely not qualified.
If you are convinced you can demonstrate cold fusion you can then take a loan on your house for equipment with the certain knowledge that the prize money will cover it all, even after taxes.
I do not believe for one second that these people would actually pay any prize money. If they would, they should have paid it years ago to Mizuno, Storms, McKubre, Miles or any of 200 others who have demonstrated the cold fusion effect beyond any rational doubt.
Frankly, anyone who does not believe the results published in the peer-reviewed literature is not a scientist and will probably not be convinced by anything short of a commercial product. It is a waste of time trying to convince such people. I think it is best to ignore them.
Cold fusion needs a hero. Instead of complaining that "Nature" won't consider your paper, take THEIR hero Randi's million bucks!
Cold fusion has hundreds of heros already, including many people who sacrificed their careers and hundreds of thousands of dollars of their own money to conduct research.
- Jed
