From: Jed Rothwell
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/personal-cold-fusion-reactor-invention- lenr/Content?oid=2165464 This story must be embarrassing for Larsen - due to the timing with Ed Storms being featured prominently. You do not have to read between the lines to see that someone has permitted a gigantic ego to get into the way of doing good science. To paraphrase: "keeping information private in the university environment became a problem, Larsen says, so in 2003 they shifted their research to the Santa Fe home laboratory of retired Los Alamos physicist Edmund Storms." Then it continues to the theory which developed: "The theory is controversial even among the minority of scientists who take LENR seriously, and the detractors include Larsen's erstwhile collaborator Edmund Storms." Larsen "terminated the relationship, partly over [Storms] rejection of the theory that Widom developed. Ed Storms responds "The theory is not consistent with what is observed by people exploring cold fusion and it rests on several ad hoc assumptions for which no evidence exists in any field of science." Given the circumstances, why would anyone, especially the DoE, want to invest in Lattice Energy, or in any company that puts ego (and a cranky theory) ahead of doing good science ? Jones
