?Jed, we want you to come back.? I enjoy your posts.? I saw somthing you would like when I visited the Oak Ridge science mueseum.? I positive exhibit on cold fusion.?I will post the text once I such a picture.? ?I took of it into my computer.? ?I asked the exhibition manager about it.? He said several people had asked him to take it down.? I told him to resist them and keep it up.? You worked to make these things happen Jed.? Your efforts willl prove to be of historic proportion.?? I've been kicked down many times.? I gave up at periods.? I am still in the game,? you need to take a break from?suck it up?and then come back.
Frank Snip...........message from Jed "I miss Jed.? I hope he comes back."? ? That would be up to Bill Beaty. He does not seem anxious to let me back in, and honestly, I am not inclined to go where I am not wanted. I did not realize that people there are uninterested in the politics of cold fusion. Since that is my main area of expertise, I do not have much else to contribute, so I don't see much point to rejoining, even if he lets me. I upload announcement of new papers, but there are not many of them anymore. Most of the literature is out of reach, because of copyright restrictions.? ? It is not important. There is hardly any news about cold fusion in any case; the field is moribund, as it has been for years. You can read about political events at Krivit's site: http://www.newenergytimes.com/? ? The only problem with that site is that many people do not want to read it, because Krivit has stepped on people's toes -- many of them deservedly. I am less inclined to do that because, frankly, I don't care what people think or what they are up to (other than experiments). I wouldn't bother stepping on most of the toes Steve stomped. I just want those people to give me papers.? ? "You know, when things didn't go his way at Infinite Energy, he never came back."? ? That is completely incorrect. Gene Mallove got upset with me there because I said unkind things about the Correas. Gene was working closely with them. See:? ? http://www.aetherometry.com/Electronic_Publications/Politics_of_Science/Serpents_Tooth/serpent_index.html? ? Also, at that point I had nothing more to write for the magazine (and I still don't) and I was busy working on LENR-CANR, mainly OCR work. A few weeks before he was killed, however, Gene helped fund LENR-CANR, and we were talking about collaborating on other work. He did not hold a grudge for long and neither do I.? ? After Gene died they asked me to contribute to the magazine, but I told them I am not interested in writing for journals published on paper. The audience is too small. The only way to communicate with the public in the 21st century is on the Internet, in sites with unrestricted access by anyone. When the subject is cold fusion, the only way is to give away the information for free. Unfortunately for authors, people will not pay for it. That's why, for example, the books about cold fusion by Mizuno, Beaudette and me available at Amazon.com sell a few copies per month, whereas people download hundreds of copies a week of those same book from LENR-CANR.org.? ? I do not want to participate in the closed group at CMNS because it is closed to the public. (Also because I do not want to hear any technical secrets.) My goal is to bring people into the field and educate the public, not to contribute to the closed echo chamber of cold fusion. The skeptics are right when they say the field is ingrown and cut off from the mainstream. They are mainly to blame, but people who establish closed discussion groups are also at fault.? ? Since I went to the trouble to write all of this, I would appreciate it if you would post it to Vortex. Unless that would get you in trouble with Beaty. He is someone I thought I knew, but I have sadly misjudged him.? ? - Jed?
