Google, Wikipedia and many other web sites are campaigning against the proposed laws governing the Internet, the so-called SOPA and PIPA acts. Key supporters of the acts in Congress have already bowed to public pressure. The acts are not likely to pass. See:
http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2012/01/16/jimmy_wales_wikipedia_blackout_to_protest_sopa_on_wednesday.html If it becomes generally known that cold fusion is real, and that it will save thousands of dollars a year per person, there will be an enormous brouhaha in the mass media. There is likely to be opposition to cold fusion from the fossil fuel industry, the DoE and others. Some people, including Ed Storms, predict that it may take many years to push aside this opposition to allow reactors and commercial development in the U.S. I suppose that is possible, but I predict another scenario. I predict that people will be outraged when they learn that vested interests are preventing them from saving huge sums of money. Nothing excites people more than money. Nothing is more likely to trigger widespread activism. I predict the voters will raise hell, the way they are today with SOPA and PIPA. Within months, or perhaps even weeks, the opposition will be swept aside. I predicate this prediction on the hope that the public becomes fully aware of the potential of cold fusion. It is possible this potential will not be reported in the mass media. Perhaps the mass media will continue to report the kind of nonsense Mark Gibbs in Forbes has been publishing lately. In that case, all bets are off. Cold fusion will be effectively suppressed if that happens. It all depends on whether we can reach the public, and motivate the public. I quoted a British engineer in the intro to my book, who described how it was that effective anti-pollution laws were finally passed in England, after centuries of dithering: "on public opinion, and on it alone, finally rests the issue." - Jed
