Fran wrote: > Good point regarding what might be in the classified report. These authors > are all very likely to have confidential information of their own research > and consulting with industry. > Honestly, I doubt it. I doubt there is much important information about cold fusion that I do not know, or that you cannot find at LENR-CANR.org plus the conference proceedings. I am aware of a few details about experiments that have not yet been published yet, but that is only because it takes a while to write papers. People are not holding back. I have heard some "proprietary" information over the years, but in most cases it has been of little use.
My parents were posted to the U.S. Embassy in Russia during WWII, so when I was a kid I knew some Soviet experts and people who had been in intelligence agencies during WWII and the early part of the cold war. They said the top secret government information was seldom more accurate or informative than what is published in the New York Times. In "Dr. Strangelove" there is an exchange about the doomsday machine: President Merkin Muffley: This is preposterous. I've never approved of anything like that. Ambassador de Sadesky: Our source was the New York Times. One of ex-spys I knew said "that sounds about right." They also said the Soviet Threat was wildly overblown. They said this in 1964, but few people believed them back then. The full extent of the exaggerations did not become clear to everyone until after the cold war ended. It works both ways; the Soviets were much more afraid of the U.S. than they should have been. - Jed
