Edmund Storms <[email protected]> wrote: Jed, funding is not available from conventional sources because these > sources do not believe the effect is real. Consequently, the money must > come from private individuals. Such people have funded work of various > people, including myself, for a long time, but now even their patience has > run out in most cases. >
I am aware of that. It will be most regrettable if you quit, but I do not see how anyone can criticize you, because you have done the best you could. I criticize Dennis Cravens because I know that he has done excellent work in the past, but for several years now he has not made the effort needed to present these results in a professional paper, or ICCF presentation. He has not made his case with the people who do have funding. You, Pam Boss and many others have done this. Writing a good paper is hard work. No one knows that better than I do, since I have edited hundreds of papers. A paper or presentation may not do any good. Given the resistance to this research it probably will not do any good. But I think it is incumbent on a researcher to try. Science is not meaningful unless the results are communicated to others. Secret research was practiced by Leonardo da Vinci and others before the Renaissance, who kept his results in notebooks in mirror writing. This was not science because it was not shared or critiqued by others. Publication is as essential to science as the experimental method or math are. It irks me when Cravens, and others, complain that "no one listens to me" when they refuse to speak up! I have given the cold fusion researchers an audience of 10,000 readers a week, at LENR-CANR.org. I did this at great expense and effort. This audience includes people at many leading universities and corporations, as I pointed out in my ICCF presentation ( http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJthefuturem.pdf). You, Ed, have published excellent papers. It is a darn shame you are ignored. However, when people do not even take the trouble to put their best foot forward and address this audience, I have no sympathy for them. I can see no more that can be done to get funding until someone can make > the effect occur without fail at a high level. This will eventually > happen, but meanwhile I need to use my time more productively. > It may not happen. - Jed
