Keep Your Eye on the Doughnut, not on the Hole! Any time or money spent on Pd/D2O system is a waste and counterproductive, yet most of the old guard cold fusion workers persist in their opinions about Pd/D2O.
It produces tritium, neutrons and is energy poor. Relative to cool fusion, a minuscule amount of money and effort has been spent on the H/Ni system as compared to the Pd/D2O system. Let us direct our focus to the proper path toward the commercial realization of LENR. There is no need to dump good money after bad. There will be general resistance to this way of thinking from the old timers in the cold fusion community. Any money that they receive will go down the Pd/D2O rat hole. As our great resident philosopher here at vortex as famously stated: "When a scientist becomes an expert in his field, he has his entire life invested in the paradigm. It becomes a thing of faith mistaken for knowledge. It would take an epiphany tantamount to a blind man suddenly gaining sight to change. It's a great individual that can admit his entire life's work was flawed. It rarely happens." Cheers: Axil On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]> wrote: > > As I said at ICCF17, in the whole history of the field, we have spent >>> roughly as much money as people spend on semiconductor R&D in a single day. >>> I repeat: by the standards of industrial R&D, cold fusion is one day old. >>> >> >> Brilliant comment, Jed. >> > > Thanks. > > That is one of the reasons I am optimistic. > > I do not suppose that money has magical powers to create breakthroughs, > but I know there are many promising unexplored avenues. Any cold fusion > researcher can think of fruitful ways to spend millions of dollars. They > all have dozens of great ideas they cannot try for lack of funding. If we > let thousands of researchers do what they think is best, someone will > succeed. > > Even if Storms and McKubre and the others now at work fail, others will > enter the field. Someone will hit it. > > Most will fail, but that does not matter. > > There is no doubt that cold fusion can be scaled up. It *has been* scaled > up, by F&P in France and in a few other places. > > - Jed > >
