On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Mitt Romney has made a comment, about as ignorant is you can get, about >> cold fusion that is, despite its ignorance, a positive comment. > > > ...This is entirely up to the physics establishment. > Even if the physics establishment maintains its death-grip on funding, Romney's faux pas -- ignorant as it was -- is the kind of excuse private funding sources -- particularly those friendly to Romney and looking for a way to discredit Obama -- can use to shield them from the "fringe kookery" smears that do, indeed, frighten many private financiers. Of course, if you're talking about investors that are friendly to Obama's politics, they will be even less likely to invest in cold fusion. I did go out of my way to talk about _private_ funding sources in my original post. > I think Romney had cold fusion mixed up with HTSC. > I did say twice in the original post, and reiterated in this one, that Romney's comment was "ignorance". I even called it "abject". The point is there is an enormous universe of terms he could have confused with HTSC and the one he chose was not only a technology that many private funding sources are looking for an excuse to invest in, but it is one that bears directly on the credibility of Romney's primary weakness within the Republican Party's very influential evangelical base: Mormon "kookery".
