This thread should be fascinating to a student of sociology, political
science, and/or psychology. Already there are 'pro' and 'anti' Jed posts by
those who dot not really know him. The two present who "know" him, face to
face and for many years are Ed Storms and myself. Steve has a reasoned
assessment of 'Jed'.
To Frank Zidnarsic: Jed is independant and comes and goes as he pleases. The
founders of the company that initially published Infinite Energy were Gene
Mallove, Jed Rothwell, and Chris Tinsley in England. Chris died some years
ago. Gene ran IE after his own opinion, and to my knowledge, never had a
board meeting. Jed cooperated with Gene for years, but did his own 'thing'.
Gene asked me to be a member of his board, but I had no influence on his
operational decisions, and we parted company before Gene was murdered.
Jed is independantly wealthy as a software entrepreneur, with a Japanese
wife. Jed is fluent in Japanese. He is also a hisotrian of technology and an
advocate of the power of entrepreneurship to accelerate the applications of
technology. This is validated by his own success as a programmer, in an
artificial world whare the rules are known and precisely stated. That does
not apply where the rules are not known, which is the lot of CF/LENR/CMNS.
Jed once sketched an "Inventors Disease" in an attempt to goad investigators
to make faster progress, and in the process irritated a lot of people [he
has mellowed somewhat].
Kyle sees snapshots of Jed as a cruel and arrogant person -- in fact he
drives a cheap car. What Kyle does not see is Jed's acute and passionate
awareness of the millions in developing nations whose lot would be vastly
improved if only CF propagated throughout mankind. This drives him to nag
the investigators, attend the international conferences, travel to important
lectures and demonstrations, wite a book, support a website that has reached
1,400,000 people worlwide -- all at his expense. ***Jed does what he *can*
to advnace the cause of CF***
Kyle, I think you need to apologize to Jed, or at least to try to understand
were he is coming from. How have you advanced the cause of CF?
Mike Carrell
