A predictable response from the New York Times. See:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/opinion/30mon4.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
"The Perils of Progress
By EDUARDO PORTER
Published: March 29, 2009
I was studying physics in college 20 years ago this month, when two
chemists at the University of Utah promised that they could unleash
the energy of the sun in a test tube at room temperature, and meet
the entire world's energy needs forever with some cooked up water and
a couple of electrodes.
The exhilaration at the genesis of the new science of "cold fusion"
faded fairly quickly. Scores of scientists around the world tried and
failed to replicate the Utah scientists' wondrous results. Irksome
physicists pointed out that the process the chemists described
violated several laws of nature. . . ."
I sent a letter, which I predict will be ignored. I suggest that
others should do so. Include your name, address and telephone number,
and wrote to: [email protected]
My letter is as follows:
Regarding cold fusion, Eduardo Porter wrote:
"Scores of scientists around the world tried and failed to replicate
the Utah scientists' wondrous results."
This is completely incorrect. I have a collection of 1,200 mainstream
peer-reviewed journal papers on cold fusion. I copied these papers
from the libraries at Los Alamos and Georgia Tech, plus 2,000 other
papers from conference proceedings and official publications of the
U.S. Navy, Los Alamos, BARC and other national laboratories. This
literature proves that there are, "undoubtedly overwhelming
indications that nuclear processes take place in the metal alloys"
(the late Prof. Heinz Gerischer, Director, Max Planck Institute for
Physical Chemistry in Berlin). Cold fusion has been replicated
thousands of times in hundreds of major laboratories worldwide.
An evaluation of a scientific claim should be based upon a careful
reading of the mainstream, peer-reviewed literature on the subject,
not on the casual recollections of someone who does not know anything
about the subject.
Jed Rothwell
Librarian, LENR-CANR.org
1954 Airport Road, Suite 204
Chamblee, GA 30341
Tel: 770-456-5324
Home: 770-458-8107
LENR-CANR.org is an on-line bibliography of 3,500 papers and 500
full-text papers on cold fusion
