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Von: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]>
An: [email protected]; [email protected]
Gesendet: 0:35 Dienstag, 10.April 2012
Betreff: Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation
>In my view, the job of developing cold fusion theory will involve materials
>scientists and nuclear physicists, and that the latter bailed in 1989-1990 was
>a loss of opportunity for them. They now have another opportunity, as a
>community, but there is still quite a shortage of the necessary experimental
>data.
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Excellent assessment of the situation
> That will be remedied.
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How?
When?
My own attempts of triggering something like open-source LENR are definitely
amateurish.
I know that.
As amateurish as premature attempts to commercialize the effect, I'm afraid.
But if the scientific community is so fragmented and underfunded -talk about a
billion over the course of say 5 years- this also is a political issue, ie the
political will to spend such an amount of money.
And here we are again.
The political will to spend a billion can be lobbied away, by whatever force,
may it be industry or a branch of science, lobbying for its own existence.
Not-yet-existing science per definition has no lobby.
It has to lobby itself into existence by hard evidence.
Once you are there, very little further evidence is needed.
The LENR crowd is not there yet.
The scientific community, I'm afraid, is compromised by its own interests.
No need for Popper here.
See the hot-fusion crowd, quite a lot of those is in spitting-distance from my
place.
They are currently in deep trouble, because there seems to be a fundamental
flaw in the ITER-design, i.e. dust particles in the vacuum, which cannot be
avoided IN PRINCIPLE, and thus the vaccum breaks down.
But the directorate wo'nt admit that, because it would mean that the existence
of 10k scientists would be in jeopardy..
So this is also a social issue, not only one of scientific sincerity.
Politicians on the other hand lack the expertise to decide, so the whole thing
is self-blocking.
-> BAU.
We do not even have to consider sinister forces like the energy-industry to
block that.
Science does this by its own.
This is the sad state of affairs.
