Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]> wrote:
> The scion of Toyota who started the program died of old age, and others >> who were determined to stop it won out. >> > > Perhaps. > Perhaps what? Perhaps he is still alive? Perhaps they were not determined to close it down? They said they were! Fleischmann and everyone else connected with the program told me they were. > However, while CF experiments are difficult, has that work by Pons and > Fleischmann ever been replicated? If it was so reproducible, why not? > First, the boil off experiments were replicated. Second it is not "so reproducible." You need the materials and knowledge of the techniques, and both have been buried deeply by Toyota, Johnson Matthey and the NHE because of IP disputes. That is what I have heard. Why? I suppose because they resemble the proverbial Russian peasant: An angel appears before a peasant and says, "God grants you any wish you like." The peasant falls to his knees in gratitude, singing God's praises. Until the angel adds: "There is one condition. Whatever we give you, we will give twice that to your neighbor." The peasant is stunned, and stops to think. Finally he cries out, "put out one of my eyes!" The same dynamic was at work with Patterson and with Rossi and many others. In any case, you greatly exaggerate the irreproducability. - Jed
