The oil drum has a component of their subscribership that wants to get back to nature by killing off most of humanity. They say “starve the beast”: the beast being humanity.
Peak oil is their favorite route to that end. The reality of effective cold fusion is a tremendous disappointment to that crowd. On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Alan J Fletcher <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.theoildrum.com/node/7942 > > *The return of cold fusion? *Posted by Ugo Bardi on May 20, 2011 - 10:40am > ... > So, it would seem that cold fusion as a way of producing energy is > something made of the same stuff dreams are made of. That was my conclusion > after having worked on it and the reason of my initial reaction of total > disbelief when I first heard of the claims of having attained just that > dream by two Italian researchers, Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi. Yet, in > physics there are no absolutes: everything known can be disproved and, in > the end, it is the experimental reality that counts. So, I noted that Rossi > and Focardi, unlike Pons and Fleischmann, seem to be able to reproduce their > result according to several reports that appear reliable. Then, a friend and > colleague of mine went to visit Focardi. My friend is not an easily duped > person and he went there ready to debunk the hoax. He came back rather > perplexed, saying something like, “well, there may be something in this > story.” > ... > > - - - - > > theoildrum.com did some very good coverage of the BP Oil spill. I think > they're quite well regarded. >
