Randy Wuller wrote:
You see if it were me I would not want tests particularly ones that satisfied the skeptics who are helping keep a lid on this. If LENR tests were ever performed to satisfy the skeptics and entice coverage by the media, well watch out. In other words if the world thought this was all real, the flood gates to investment research would open like you have never seen before and the tidal wave would wash over those doing this research like nothing you can imagine.
McKubre and I agree this is the likely reason Rossi wants no tests. He is trying to keep a lid on things. Especially because he has no patent. We think he may be having trouble filing a comprehensive one. Ed Storms suspects that.
McKubre thinks Rossi has other reasons to maintain widespread doubt, especially to avoid the "evil eye of the DoE" as McKubre puts it. Nothing good can come of getting their attention. Researchers want to avoid it for as long as they can. As it happens, the DoE does not want to turn its evil eye in this direction. They would prefer to go on pretending cold fusion does not exist. It is comical that this charade happens to fit the best interests of both sides. It is a sort of non-aggression treaty. It will last until the public becomes aware that cold fusion is real. Then, needless to say, the DoE, the fossil fuel companies and others will to launch every weapon at their disposal to prevent cold fusion R&D. I predict it will be the political battle of the century.
You can see how it will play out in the present battle between the coal industry and the wind turbine industry. Big coal is trying to get the Congress to pass laws banning the use of wind turbines, and disassembling the ones now in place. They are 10 years to late. Wind energy already employs more people than coal, and it makes enough money to bribe as many Representatives as needed. I doubt that big coal will wait around this time. They have learned their lesson, letting wind snatch ~4% of their business. I expect a hue and cry, and full-page ads saying we cannot allow nuclear fusion power in houses, cars or even central generators.
As I said in the introduction to my book, I predict that the only way cold fusion will survive this onslaught will be with widespread, grassroots public support. Without that, the combined forces of big coal, big oil, the DoE, the wind and solar industries and other conventional energy producers will crush cold fusion once and for all. Corporations wanting to make money with cold fusion will be a countervailing force against conventional energy. They will pay for the media campaign in favor of cold fusion. But the political power must come from the public.
That's how I see it shaping up. You can't predict the future, but that's my guess.
Rossi better pray he has a big jump on everyone if it is real, he is going to need it.
Yup. That seems likely to me. - Jed
