Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]> wrote:
> Krivit's previous blog entry is a doozy: >> <http://blog.newenergytimes.**com/2011/06/06/cold-fusion-** >> may-ye-rest-in-peace/<http://blog.newenergytimes.com/2011/06/06/cold-fusion-may-ye-rest-in-peace/> >> >http://**blog.newenergytimes.com/2011/**06/06/cold-fusion-may-ye-rest-** >> in-peace/<http://blog.newenergytimes.com/2011/06/06/cold-fusion-may-ye-rest-in-peace/> >> > > He's nuts on this. There is some ambiguity in the term "fusion," a > confusion between process and result. This is even nuttier than usual. Krivit wrote: "'Cold fusion' was a metaphor for a utopian dream: clean, inexpensive, universally available, virtually unlimited energy from water." It is not a metaphor; it is a fact. This is like saying that the atomic bomb was a metaphor for killing hundreds of thousands of people in Hiroshima. "The concept of 'cold fusion' inspired hope for a greener planet, local energy production, freedom from the shackles of the petrocracy and, among other benevolent ideals, world peace. My first book, The Rebirth of Cold Fusion: Real Science, Real Hope, Real Energy, espoused this perspective." Why would any of this be nullified by the W-L theory, or if Mills is right? Theory has nothing to do with these predictions. "For many years, proponents claimed 'cold fusion' as a nuclear process that emulated thermonuclear fusion at room temperature. LENR is nuclear, but it looks nothing like fusion." Unless it *is* fusion, in which case it looks like a different kind of fusion. He mean it looks nothing like plasma fusion, which is a different assertion. "Not even cold fusion proponents propose that light-hydrogen nuclei fuse with each other at room temperature." Of course they do! Why wouldn't they? It is not that much more a stretch than deuterons fusing. "Chubb’s last words to me about our ideological disagreement revolved around the absence of experimental evidence for the theory of 'cold fusion.' This followed my revelation of the data manipulation and fabrication by electrochemist Michael McKubre." This is nuts. Completely around the bend. This revelation exists in Krivit's own mind only. As I said, this is a doozy. - Jed
