This "peakoil" discussion:
http://peakoil.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=60688&p=1060834
. . . has another "straw in the wind" comment that may indicate a change
in public opinion:
"...Yeah, don't give people like NASA Chief Scientist, Dennis Bushnell,
and other researchers at NASA any credence. Nor the Chairman of the
Energy Committee, Royal Academy of Sciences. Nor any of the theoretical
physicists in attendance at the demos; it's much better to believe some
anonymous j***-**f on a public discussion board!"
This resembles the comment I cited before:
"This guy is a world class scientist with several articles published in
peer reviewed journals, and it pulls only from classical physics.
Explain how it is bunk."
The skeptics are no longer given a free pass.
I think we have to give Rossi credit for that. All the scientific proof
in the world does not have the kind of impact a commercial-scale
demonstration will have. That's human nature. Very few people will be as
convinced by a 1-watt reaction in a test tube as they are by a 16-kW
reaction. Even though you can make the case that the calorimetry in
something like McKubre's experiments is so much better than the U.
Bologna demonstrations, the actual signal to noise ratio and what you
might call scientific credibility of the former is actually higher.
Small scale experiments just do not seize the imagination.
- Jed
