There have been a number of blogs discussing Rossi lately, but no
mainstream reports since NyTeknik. Some mainstream reporters are
sniffing around, but they have not published anything as far as I know.
The high-quality blogs are a valuable sources of information for us, but
they do not influence public opinion.
Traffic at LENR-CANR.org has been at record highs but it is now starting
to return to normal.
A major announcement by Essen et al. might push some of the mass media
to report this. A 1 MW test in October or the opening of the factory
probably will . . . but not necessarily. You would be surprised at how
much resistance there is. There might be a few reports in the back pages
that investors are putting money into "a controversial energy source." I
have never seen mainstream news about Mills, even when people invest
millions in his company.
Rossi's claims are so flamboyant they trigger more opposition, not less.
Some mainstream scientists are willing to admit there might be a
marginal cold fusion effect, close to the noise and probably chemical,
but they are outraged when you tell them there is a reactor that inputs
80 W and outputs 16 kW for hours or weeks. As we have seen, there are
even people here at Vortex who believe cold fusion is real and yet who
refuse to believe that conventional calorimetry works.
- Jed
