On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Here is a technological hoax that bamboozled $150 million from high > officials in oil companies and governments. I did not realize such large, > high-level hoaxes existed: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oil_Sniffer_Hoax > > A skeptic suggested to me that Defkalion might be something like this. I > doubt it. I do not think anything in cold fusion resembles this. The closest > thing to it is plasma fusion, such as the ITER project, which most outside > experts think has no chance of technological or commercial success. > Oh I don't know. This sentence seems to have more in common with Rossi than with ITER: "Bonassoli attempted to deflect all criticism by stating that the entire secret of the device was one key component, which was locked in a box that he refused to open." Whatever ITER's prospects for engineering success are, the science is open, undisputed, and well-understood.
