On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mary Yugo <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> That is the ultimate in silliness. If anyone develops a robust example >> of cold fusion/LENR power generation, it will sell world wide better than >> hotcakes with strawberry syrup and whipped cream on top ever did. NOTHING >> -- not regulation, oil interests, governments, or internet critics will be >> able to slow it much less stop its development. >> > > Probably, but I am certain they will try to stop it. People opposed to > progress have tried to stop every innovation in history, no matter how > beneficial. This is an iron law of human behavior. > I am really curious: who do you think tried to stop F&F when they first announced and before they apparently kept shooting themselves in the feet? Did big oil mount a campaign? Hear much from the fission power industry? How about coal? Any outcries of fraud from the natural gas industry? Any malignant skeptics write articles early on? WHO tried to stop P&F's first efforts? HOW did they do it? For that matter, who critiqued Rossi before he did the idiotic dog and pony shows despite innumerable requests to fly straight? Certainly not me. Instead, I asked the few critics I found to hold off and give the guy a chance. Well, he's had a year of chances and so has Defkalion.
