Joshua Cude <[email protected]> wrote: As Miles showed in Table 10, if the person doing the experiment is skilled, >> the success rate varies from zero to 100% depending on the material. >> > > > Really? You need skill to get a success rate from 0 to 100%? >
You need skill to get any excess heat at all. You also need good material to make it work at all, even at low power, with some samples. You need superb material to make it work every time at high power. > I think an incredulous smirk is appropriate. > That's against the rules here. > Because who wants clean abundant energy? Who wants to save the world? Who > wants honor glory fame. No one wants that! > That is not the reward for doing cold fusion, or anything else that upsets mainstream institutions. As I mentioned, what happens is a funding agency in Washington calls you and threatens to close your lab; if you have a green card they threaten to deport your; a Congressman demands your tax returns and personal correspondence; and the Washington Post, Time Magazine and the New Scientist accuse you of being a lunatic and a criminal, destroying your career and your personal life. Martin Fleischmann predicted this would happen on the day of the press conference. He was not surprised by the reaction. Anyone who has studied history will not be surprised. This is real life, not a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie. Charles Beaudette quoted Fleischmann and summarized the situation at the end of his book, QUOTE: Fleischmann was fulsome in his summary view: "If it had been anything else, we would have said, Oh . . . People don’t want us to do it; forget it; just leave it alone. But this is not in that category. This is interesting science. New science, with a hint of a possibility of a very useful technology. Therefore, if you’ve got any integrity, you don’t give it up. You give it up if you find you are wrong. But as long as you believe that you are right, you have to continue with it. And you have to take the consequences." Is this not similar to the response of the Swedish chemist Svente Arrhenius with his discovery of the mechanism of electrolytic conduction more than one hundred years ago? He believed he was right and he persevered for twenty years before receiving the recognition that was his due. One can only wonder why discovery seems to be so punished. Why, so often, must the next Columbus be brought home in chains? - Jed
