At 03:14 PM 8/20/2012, Ron Kita wrote:
Greetings Vortex-l
The website below was sent to me by a Siemens employee:
<http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-829229>http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-829229
Respectfully,
Ron Kita, Chiralex
the mW should have been changed.
mW -> MW. Embarrassing.
There are other minor errors, such as "Los Alamos" being spelled "Los
Alamitos." However, it's fiction. So what?
Commercially successful cold fusion devices will be what the U.S.
Defense Department has called "disruptive technology." They will
cause economic dislocations, even if the eventual effect is strongly positive.
However, I really want to emphasize this, the story is fantasy. Rossi
devices might as well be fantasy, i.e., we have no independent
evidence that they actually work as claimed.
Or they might be real. Rossi has more or less gone out of his way to
look like a con artist.
It's fascinating to see the parallel with the Papp Engine and John
Rohner. He could hardly look crazier. Yet....
There is absolutely no substitute for independent confirmation, once
we want to move beyond chit-chat and speculation.
Where the general physics community went astray in 1989-1990 was that
the took confirmation failure as if it were the final story (because
taking it that way confirmed what they believed), and then neglected
the confirmations as they began to pour in, and continued to pour in,
until there were, eventually, more confirmations than confirmation failures.
Ramsey, the Nobel-Prize winner who was co-chair of the 1989 DoE ERAB
Panel, wrote that a single confirmed LENR event would be enough to
lead to revision of theory. There have been hundreds, but Ramsey is
dead and forgotten.
The pseudoskeptical position is dead in the journals, replaced by
routine acceptance, at many journals, of decent papers on cold
fusion. It's really over, but the zombie of "It was never reproduced"
doesn't realize it yet, and keeps walking as if nothing happened.
"Besides, it's impossible," he'll say just before he falls on his face.
