Long time no talk Jed, you are dearly missed you-know-where. Thanks for the rich historical details, but am I correct in understanding that nothing positive _actually came out_ of it, in spite of various hints and possibilities of a different outcome?
Although I agree to a large extent that scientific establishment inertia is a problem, it seems to me that the story you related below contains an amazing lot of lame looking excuses and conspiracy theory looking stuff. Call me a pathological skeptic if you wish, but I find it hard to believe that the people who worked in that lab have decided to take their secrets to the grave, considering the importance of the stuff. Any possibility that what they told you could be hogwash designed only to try and save their reputation? Michel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jed Rothwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 3:43 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Global warming skepticism alive and well (was Re: [Vo]: Fw: [BOBPARKS-...]) > Michel Jullian wrote: > >>Now you mention it, anybody knows if anything positive came out of >>their Toyota/Technova funded CF lab in Nice, France? > > Many positive results came from this effort: > > 1. Johnson-Matthey learned how to make Pd that works nearly every > time. They characterize the material in detail. Unfortunately, they > are the only ones who know anything about it and they have not > published a single word. Toyota and Johnson-Matthey were never able > to come to an agreement on sharing information or joint development, > according to my sources. > > 2. Technova learned to trigger massive excess heat and heat after > death in nearly every cell. > > 3. In the end they made boiling cells that produced as much as 74 > watts continuously for 40 to 150 days. See: > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RouletteTresultsofi.pdf > > Unfortunately, after the program founder and main supporter Mr. > Toyoda died, the project was killed by harsh political opposition. > That's what Martin Fleischmann and others told me. Toyoda was one of > the sons of the Toyota Company founder and he had enough influence to > ward off the skeptics. > > The "failure" of the NHE program also soured some of the Japanese > leadership on cold fusion. I put failure in quotes because the > program actually did produce excess heat in the last stage, in the > experiments conducted by Melvin Miles. See: > > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MilesMcalorimetrb.pdf > > In the final report the directors of the laboratory lied about Miles > results and claimed that he produced no excess heat. > > Japanese skeptics at high levels are now trying to kill off the > transmutation research at Mitsubishi, the National Synchrotron > Laboratory and Tokyo National University. I expect they will succeed, > using the same arguments used to destroy cold fusion in the U.S. by > the DoE reviewers, i.e., this is a disgrace to science and these > results "are not to be believed." See: > > http://lenr-canr.org/Collections/DoeReview.htm#StormsRothwellCritique > > Pathological skepticism is alive and well in Japan. > > - Jed >
