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
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