blaze spinnaker <[email protected]> wrote: And by cold fusion, obviously I don't mean random small amounts of AHE. >
Cold fusion results are never random. The control factors are well understood. See McKubre. > But to imagine that there is some new magical power source discovered by a > convict that will alter trillions of dollars in investments and derivatives > and global geopolitical power structures that everyone is completely > ignoring? > You cannot judge a scientific question by looking at the behavior or opinions of people who know nothing about the science. The people ignoring cold fusion have no basis to judge whether it is real, or whether it has any commercial potential. You might as well ask people the 14th century what they think of the germ theory and whether bacteria causes disease. Your argument seems to be verging on the notion that cold fusion is too good to be true, or if were true, people would magically know about it, even though the mass media has never published any technical details and most people would not have the slightest idea what those details mean. As for the "too good" argument, let me quote myself: Some skeptics feel that cold fusion must be too good to be true. They suspect that cold fusion researchers are guilty of wishful thinking. They should remember Michael Faraday’s dictum: “Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.” Mankind has discovered countless wonderful things that ancient people would have thought miraculous. . . . Many people have a sneaking suspicion that cold fusion must be too good to be true, because nature never does something for nothing. They think everything is difficult, and there is always a price to pay for the bounty of nature. Resources are now and always will be in short supply, and we must therefore compete with others to get our share. Such people are mired in a stone-age mentality. The only resources we lack are knowledge and science. Knowledge is power, and with it we can unlock the unthinkably vast material and energy resources of the earth, and ultimately of the entire solar system. . . . http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJcoldfusiona.pdf - Jed
