On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com>wrote:
> There is a Patent Office memo here: > > http://lenr-canr.org/Collections/PatentOfficeMemo.jpg > > I take this to mean they plan to deep six any application relating to cold > fusion. > It only says and means that they want to identify a particular technology issue- probably so it can be assigned to appropriate specialists according to appropriate protocols. There is nothing sinister about this. Following P&F, the patent office was inundated with applications, many absurd and wrong. All the whacko web sites promote this memo as some sort of smoking gun against the patent office but it's not. > The patent office has not denied all patents related to cold fusion. Some > have slipped through, mainly a technicality, such as the one they gave > Patterson because he was old. > That's nonsense. Nobody gets a patent because they're old. It's likely the patent examiner doesn't know their age. > Honestly, I do not claim the patent office for this mess. Opposition to > cold fusion is society-wide. It is prevalent among scientists although the > number who support cold fusion is larger than most people realize. > Opposition and ignorance is universal in the mass media, and among high > officials such as Sec. of Energy Chu. > There is no opposition whatever to cold fusion in mass media and most other places. There is opposition to unsubstantiated and extravagant claims for new energy generating systems of any type as well there should be. Historically, *all* gravity wheels, magnetic motors, and other free energy schemes have been scams. And there are plenty of energy scams in more conventional areas as well. The press is right to be careful. If Rossi had gotten independent testing for his device instead of the dog and pony shows and non-demos like October 28, and if he had a single client who could talk about it, he'd be all over the newswires. Even as it is, he got coverage from Forbes, CNN, MSNBC, CBS news and several other mainstream places. Any news media would be morons not to give coverage to a dramatic new technology for energy production -- if it had been properly and conclusively proven to be real and useful.
