For those vorticians who enjoy cutting-edge science which is steeped in controversy, one highly recommended blog is that of John Hawks. He studies human origins in the context of our Neanderthal (the "h" is optional) cousins.
Here is a recent entry: http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/neandertal_dna 180 million Neandertals "Nearly seven billion people inhabit our planet. At least six billion carry the genes of Neandertal ancestors. Inheritance from Neandertals makes up approximately 3% of the genomes of randomly chosen people outside sub-Saharan Africa today (Green et al., 2010; Reich et al., 2010). A back-of-the-envelope calculation shows if we took all of the Neandertal genes from today's human population, we would have enough raw material to make up 180 million Neandertals.... I love that because it makes the Neandertals into the evolutionary success story they really were. They succeeded by becoming part of us. End of quote, emphasis added. This brought to mind LENR and the Rossi effect, but in the context of the earlier P&F effect, and the evolution of this particular paradigm shift in energy- as it will seen by future generations. There will surely be a "founder effect" in that historical reckoning, courtesy of the events of 1989. The upcoming alternative energy game-changing device - the fully developed commercial one which changes everything circa 2020 - could easily resemble the HotCat, since that device has such an obvious commercial capability now (assuming there is no fraud). It is hard to imagine DGT or Mills or Technova or Piantelli or anyone else being able to trump the HotCat results which were recently demonstrated in the Levi report. (how many time does one need to add: "assuming there is no fraud"). But the Rossi device, unlike the predecessor technology in the lineage going back to P&F (which was probably nuclear, given the helium ash) - is surely NOT nuclear - but still will be forever classified in the same general category. Actually I have started describing the Rossi effect in two separate categories: the first - Rossi l - being almost identical to the Mills/Thermacore effect except in gas-phase - and the second advancement - Rossi ll - being the unique major breakthrough of last fall 2012 - where Rossi discovered a surprising high temperature regime, using the nickel-62 isotope, yet still completely gamma-free and ostensibly non-nuclear. In the course of the next decade - if/when it turns out that an improved version of the HotCat device does indeed go commercial (and how could it not ?) and end the dominance of fossil fuel ... then, from our present perspective in 2013 we will also have completed the Neandertal/human metaphor and the "founder effect." That is because the Rossi device will bear almost no detailed resemblance in functionality to the breakthrough of Pons and Fleishmann (which by analogy is similar to the remnant 3% of DNA inheritance from Neandertals)... yet ... without that founding effort, and the notoriety it received, there would probably be no HotCat today (Mills and Piantelli notwithstanding). Jones
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