I'm only small fish and late to the party. I do wish I was around when
your friend Eugene Mallove was alive. I may have ended up very bloody
and lying in the gutter but I would have put up a fight for what was
right. I admire your tenacity. I will do whatever I can to get a LENR
unit working closed loop and delivering excess electricity to a load.
After that P&F, Mallove and you deserve a Nobel. Them for Physics and
you and Mallove for Peace in never giving up on your friends nor in what
you believe is right. Many people and their lives will benefit in ways
no one can foresee today because of what P&F, Mallove and yourself have
done.
On 12/18/2011 9:15 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
I am sorry to report that the authorities have finally closed down
cold fusion research at SAPWAR. After Frank Gordon left, the project
was on life support. Recent reports on Fox News and elsewhere
mentioned it, bringing about the inevitable coup de grace.
Like most cold fusion projects, this was a shoestring or "bootlegged"
operation. It was done by retired researchers such as Szpak, and
others working nights and weekends. The equipment was scavenged or
bought by private individuals. But, as we all know, people opposed to
cold fusion will not tolerate any project, even if it costs
essentially nothing. Academic freedom means nothing to them. It never
occurs to them they might be wrong, because -- Like Park and Yugo --
they have read nothing and they know nothing. They make no distinction
between cold fusion and a perpetual motion machines or water memory.
Any research they disagree with _must not be allowed_, period.
Whenever cold fusion appears in the mass media I shudder, because I
know it will trigger a backlash. Cold fusion researchers keep a low
profile for a good reason. They know perfectly well that when some
nitwit such as Krivit reveals there may be a source of funding, or a
project being organized, that will trigger opposition. Robert Park
will pull strings. Others will organize letter-writing campaigns. Mary
Yugo will publish unfounded accusations of fraud and guilt by
association. You can see the dynamic at work in this article, where
someone is trying to shut down NASA interest in cold fusion:
"Why is NASA Langley Wasting Time on Cold Fusion Research?"
http://nasawatch.com/archives/2011/12/why-is-nasa-lan.html
The people in charge of the Navy and the DoE know nothing about cold
fusion, and they do not care about it. When they get letters from
scientists or members of the public saying "someone in your
organization is committing fraud" they do not ask questions. They
close it down, whatever it is. Their main concern is their public
image with the taxpayers. The last thing they need is to be accused of
countenancing academic fraud or crazy research.
This has been happening for 22 years. Given this environment, it is
surprising that cold fusion survived at all. Dozens of projects such
as this one and the one at MIT were crushed, mostly without ever being
allowed to publish anything, and without any knowledge by the public.
I knew about the MIT project described by Stolper because Gene Mallove
was involved, and he was reporting to me. I was helping to fund things
like this. No one else ever learned about it because it worked. Any
time positive results are achieved, the opposition will pull out the
stops to have the researchers fired or pushed into final retirement.
That's how it works. That is why I and others gave up even trying to
establish projects at major institutions years ago. We know how it
will end. That is why I think there no hope of funding Miley et al.,
and no point. Sure it would be important work. But it is not worth
getting some poor grad student in trouble, or ruining her career
prospects. The results will be bottled up, the grad student's
reputation torn to shreds by nitwits, and the mass media will report
only lies and distortions. Yeah, I may get another informal positive
result I can upload to LENR-CANR.org, but that is not worth destroying
someone's career. It won't change anything.
Fortunately, Rossi and Defkalion are privately funded and immune to
interference. Rossi is well aware of how academic politics work in the
U.S. That is one of the reasons he has not made much of an effort to
work with universities and national labs. Even if they get positive
results, it will be reported as a failure and fraud. That is what
happened to the National Cold Fusion Institute, and the Japanese NEDO
project. When Miles demonstrated heat at the NEDO over a few weeks,
the scientifically trained bureaucrats in charge, who were in the same
building, _refused to get up, walk down the hall, and look_. Talk
about willful ignorance! Mary Yugo has nothing on them. They were busy
writing a report saying that no positive results were achieved. They
published that in Japanese soon after Miles left and the project was
shut down. Perhaps they hoped Miles would not read it. Miles, being no
fool, sent it to me, and I translated it. He was pretty upset but not
surprised. As someone remarked "the fix was in from the start." It
could not be more blatant. Their job was to lie, stick the knife into
the project, and prevent any other research. In his book, Huizenga
bragged that was his assignment, and he was proud of how well he did
it. The 2004 DoE review was also a charade. It was clear beforehand it
would be a joke, or parlor trick, not a serious review. That is why
Storms refused to participate, and why I told the participants
beforehand, "beware of what you wish for."
- Jed
