a.ashfield <[email protected]> wrote:
> Because the scientific establishment is so certain LENR doesn’t work, it > doesn’t matter what tests are run by anybody or academic group. It will > always be instrument error or “claimed to be” or the error du jour. > The "scientific establishment" is an abstraction. It is not a real body. There is no single group constituting that establishment that meets in a building somewhere, like a Congress, and reaches unanimous conclusions. Even if a majority of scientists remain unconvinced by a good demonstration, thousands of others will be convinced. I know this because I get ~10,000 visitors to LENR-CANR.org every week. A significant fraction of them are convinced. It is impossible to say how many, but I am sure it is in the tens of thousands. See: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJthefuturem.pdf Rossi might have easily convinced a hundred thousand engineers and scientists. As he repeatedly said, "I will do no tests." That meant he was not trying to convince anyone other than a few investors and customers. He is trying to keep it secret, just as Patterson did. > I hope I’m wrong but having followed this since day one it looks like > the only proof they will accept is commercial sale of working units. Let’s > hope Rossi’s 1 MW Hot Cat plant really is being built and will surface soon. > Let us hope so. But even if it exists I expect Rossi will do all that he can to prevent people from find out, or from believing it. Many other inventors throughout the ages have done this, stretching back to the 18th century. - Jed
