>From Bill's pages: "The Vortex-L list was originally created for discussions of professional research into fluid vortex/cavitation devices which exhibit anomalous energy effects (ie: the inventions of Schaeffer, Huffman, Griggs, and Potapov among others.) Currently it has evolved into a discussion on "taboo" physics reports and research. SKEPTICS BEWARE, the topics wander from Cold Fusion, to reports of excess energy in Free Energy devices, gravity generation and detection, reports of theoretically impossible phenomena, and all sorts of supposedly crackpot claims. Before you subscribe, please see the rules below. This is a public, lightly- moderated smartlist list. There is no charge, but donations towards expenses are recommended."
With the above definition the list will always contain a lot of noise. It is not the physics department, it's the starbucks just in front of it. A good software filter may help finding relevant topics. mic 2012/6/17 Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>: > I disagree. Off topic subjects are often food for thought. Some seem off > topic at first, but turn out to be on topic. > > I have often posted news items and things that caught my attention from > books I am reading that seemed off topic. After some discussion here I > realize why they caught my attention and why they do, in fact, have some > bearing on cold fusion. > > Cold fusion is a broad subject. If we overcome the opposition and cold > fusion energy is used, historians, sociologists, economists and others will > eventually write thousands of books on this subject, trying to explain what > happened, why it happened. They will try to explain why there was such > tremendous opposition, why people such as Rossi acted the way they did, who > really discovered cold fusion, and so on. > > Cold fusion is the most important discovery in the recorded history of > technology. Only a few prehistoric discoveries such as fire and domesticated > animals outweigh it. It will revolutionize many aspects of daily life, and > many other technologies. It will force us to rethink our attitudes toward > science and research, funding for research, and our ideas about where > technology originates, who gets the credit, and who should get the profits. > It will change history; it will change the face of the earth; and it will > help open the whole solar system to exploration and colonization. It is hard > to imagine a bigger subject, or one that has more "on-topic" ramifications. > > Needless to say, if we cannot overcome the political opposition, or if Rossi > and the other researchers continue to act as their Own Worst Enemies, then > cold fusion will be a forgotten footnote to history, and we will continue to > blunder our way to ecological disaster and world-wide poverty with existing > energy systems. > > - Jed >
