Hey, Joshua Cude, Mary Yugo, and Rich Murray are not vengeful, irrational, dogmatic opponents of CF in any of its forms -- it is simply contrary to the record of their posts on Vortex-L and other public forums to denigrate them in this unworthy and untrue way -- they are simply participating competently in the essential role of skepticism, without which there can be only feeble scientific progress in new directions in any field -- ad hominem attacks are hardly evidence that all CF proponents are truly confident of the reality of CF -- it's been 22 years since 1989, with still no actual specific device operating at any lab, let alone at independent labs, producing any anomaly with clearcut evidence, following a specific protocol -- nor is there any progress towards mathematically specific and correct theory -- an obvious fraud, BlackLight Power by Randall Mills, is still widely described as accepted science by the CF pros -- lashing out at reasonable careful skeptics is hardly a strategy for attracting thoughtful competent collaborators into our networks -- in the last year I have brought up some studies that describe interesting possible anomalies, such as claimed transmutations in water tree corrosion of high density polyethylene in high voltage AC power cables... SPAWAR never responded to a specific critique by Murray in recent years that pointed out, contrary to their assumptions, an external electric field has no physical effects within the volume of a conductive electrolyte, except for possible tiny leakage currents...
within mutual service, Rich Murray, 254-A Donax Avenue, Imperial Beach, CA 91932 505-819-7388 On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Aussie Guy E-Cat <aussieguy.e...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >
