This paragraph makes no sense to me: "So, the LENR term is problematic due to such serious scientific reasons. But there is one more problematic effect from the use of such wrong definition: Certification of products based on such technologies when named “nuclear”, will result the involvement of lobbies dominating the present related Nuclear Authorities, that they will use any of their spades to delay any improvement out of their control or interest, when the area of interest and responsibility of such Authorities has nothing to do with the phenomena we are talking about!"
The phenomenon is what it is. It makes no difference what you call it: LENR, cold fusion or HENI-heat. It makes no difference what you claim the theoretical explanation is. The actual explanation will eventually emerge. It the effect is nuclear, then the present Nuclear Authorities must regulate it. They are obligated by law. If it is not nuclear, they will not regulate it. The opinions of the people at Defkalion -- and their theories, and what they choose to call it -- can play no role in the decision to regulate this, or not to regulate it. The decision is entirely out of their hands. As I said, the authorities are *obligated by law* to regulate a nuclear effect. Defkalion, or Rossi, cannot change regulations. The are not governments. They can lobby to have the law changed. They can appeal to the public to put pressure on governments. But they cannot magically change laws by using different terminology to describe their technology. The true nature of the technology will be established by having thousands of researchers examine the effects in laboratory tests worldwide. In my opinion, there is not the slightest chance this effect will be used in any end-user application until thousands of laboratories have replicated, confirmed that it is safe, determined whether it is nuclear or not, and developed a working model if not a complete theory to explain it. Society will not allow an unexplained, unknown source of energy that looks a lot like nuclear fusion to be used in thousands of houses, buildings and automobiles without regulation and without careful testing. Rossi -- and apparently Defkalion -- seem to be betting that they can slide in under the radar as it were, and start selling this profitably without first spending billions of dollars to ensure safety. I think that is preposterous. That is not how the world works in the 21st century. Some people think it is a shame that our society is heavily regulated. They prefer the 19th or early 20th century freedom to start selling things that have not been carefully vetted and approved. In the early 1900s, people sold water with lots of radium as a health drink. This killed the people who drank it. Many other dangerous products were allowed back then. We are never going to return to those freewheeling times. I agree that regulations slow down the pace of progress, and some regulations are absurd, but whether they are good or bad, I am sure they are not going away, and it is not possible for Defkalion to do an end-run around them by renaming the phenomenon. Some people hope that cold fusion will get its start in places like India, where regulators have little power. I doubt it. Regulators in India and China have lots of power. Far too much. They are corrupt and will demand more control and a larger kickback than they would in the U.S. They are not responsive to public pressure on the legislatures. This technology will be developed, certified safe and sold in the first world -- the U.S., Europe and Japan -- or it will not be developed at all. It will be developed like any other major innovation, with the full cooperation, involvement and compliance of government regulators and private regulators such as UL. Or it will not be developed at all. Something as big as this will not be secretly, gradually introduced. It will not be manufactured in cottage industry fashion, or bootstrapped by Rossi. This is wishful thinking. It is likely there will be opposition from existing energy producers and nuclear regulators. If not at first, then later on. That opposition will have to be dealt with by existing political mechanisms. Mainly by having voters demand the Congress overrule existing interests. If the Congress does not do that, we will not have cold fusion. The Congress is dysfunctional. But not totally dysfunctional. It was dysfunctional and deeply corrupt in the 1860s yet it managed to legislate railroads into existence, and pay for them with Uncle Sam's money. (The money was paid back with interest before the end of the century.) I am sure that with enough pressure from the voters, the opposition will be defeated. In the end, everything will depend on public opinion, and the will of the people. There is no other way to defeat the opposition. There are no shortcuts. There are no magic spells invoked by changing the name to "HENI-heat." - Jed
