On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Since he is not a fool, I am sure he knows that. He has known it for years. > He has never said to me outright, "I do not want people to believe this, > since I have no patent" but I suppose that must be his business strategy. > Patterson did have a patent yet he said that. Many inventors & researchers > in cold fusion and other fields have said that. They want negative press and > opposition, because they have the development money they need and they have > enough customers. They want to keep competing scientists from getting funded > by ensuring the press will be full of attacks. They want to keep big > corporations from getting interested. That sounds implausible. It seems backwards. First, Rossi has not been a shy wallflower. He's given going on 12 demonstrations, many for the public including scientists and reporters. He says he is about to give E-cats to two universities-- of course he hasn't but he says he will "soon". Rossi also apparently gave private demonstrations (or tried to or failed to deliberately) to NASA and Quantum. Quantum would have been a huge client so why did he fail with them if he could succeed? Why not instead not agree to have them visit at all, if he's so reticent? I understand you think cold fusion acts the way you suggest deliberately but I think maybe they have no other choice because perhaps they can't show clearly the robust prolonged excess heat production they claim to have. That would explain it more easily. I'm also curious if you know another earth shaking revolutionary invention that has been brought out with such discretion and misdirection recently. I know the discussion about the Wright brothers but that was a very long time ago when the scientific environment was very different and the public did not adapt to new discoveries. Anyway the misdirection did not last long. And this is the age of the iPad, webcams, instant news and the internet.
