Horace Heffner wrote:
Historical note:
CETI has been mentioned - and their plastic beads. Everyone assumed
the beads were inactive and merely provide a neutral substrate. But
were they?
I think it was probably key that the sulfonated plastic diffused
hydrogen.
You may be right, but there are any number of unexplored possibilities.
In a perfect world, and with an Edisonian approach, we would try to find
the one combination which works best amidst the thousands which do not
work as well.
Actually, I suspect that Patterson just got lucky, and that his approach
worked on occasion, but not for the reasons he thought; and most of all,
that there are better approaches out there.
Unfortunately, Patterson had the chance to perform the LENR miracle in
the labs of Motorola, but failed. Had he been luckier, the world might
be a different place today.
There is an old story on this critical turning point in LENR history in
my favorite magazine of the moment - Wired. It dispels the myth that he
turned down an offer from them. There was never an fixed offer, unless
he could demonstrate results in their lab. He could not.
Jones
