Horace Heffner <[email protected]> wrote:
> If LENR research is suppressed in the US then the US will be the worse off > for it. > If?!? What do you mean "if"? It is already as suppressed as anything can be! There are not more than a 6 or 8 researchers in the U.S., and they are all being paid for from private money or DARPA. DARPA does not answer to the DoE. If it did, there would not be a penny from Uncle Sam. Okay, there may be a few others keeping a low profile. Don't ask me. By the way, there has been a discussion here about of CMNS and the Beardsworth letter. I would like to address that -- I am the polar opposite of Steve Krivit. I *never* upload a paper without permission. I never discuss a paper without permission. I have edited or translated many that I never discuss. I never ask nosy questions or try to dig up information on people who ask to be left alone. I supply information. I do not want to hear secrets. If someone asks me to delete a paper or information sent previously, I delete it at once, no questions asked. Krivit kept the letter from Beardsworth of Royal Dutch Shell, even though Beardsworth asked him to remove it: http://blog.newenergytimes.com/2011/12/16/shells-interest-indicates-major-shift-for-lenr/ If Beardsworth had sent me that, I would probably have copied it here without thinking about it. I would assume he wants me to disseminate it, to find applicants. Why else would he send it to me? I might put it in the News section at LENR-CANR.org. If Beardsworth were then to contact me and said "that was confidential" I would be acutely embarrassed. I would apologize. I never intend to make things public that the author wants to keep secret. That is why I am not a member of CMNS. (Krivit is not a member either. Someone leaks to him, I suppose.) I have no objection to those people at CMNS carrying on confidential discussions. None! There was some confusion about that. People thought I left the place in hissy fit because I oppose secrecy. Secrecy is great. Ducky. But I personally do not want to hear any technical secrets about cold fusion. I do not wish to hear anything you would not say at an ICCF conference. I am happy to hear other secrets: personal, business, financial, sexual . . . bring it on! *Tell me all you know, dahling.* Just nothing technical relating to cold fusion. Arthur Clarke told me that was his policy. I liked it, so I adapted it. I want no adversarial relationship with anyone in this field. I have never turned down a submission to LENR-CANR because I disagreed with the content. It is a library, not a journal. I have turned down ~5 submissions, because they were off-topic, handwritten, or never published elsewhere. - Jed
