On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > They were not saying "incandescent lights are impossible." [...] The > parallels to cold fusion are interesting. No scientist denies that fusion > is possible. They say metal lattice fusion without neutrons is impossible. > Right. They say Rossi has not produced fusion. That destroys the parallel, because it was obvious that Edison *had* produced incandescent lights. What wasn't obvious was that he could make it practical. If scientists thought Rossi had cold fusion, they would be all over it, as they were in 1989.

