James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote:
> I stand by my assertion that if the exact same inter-institutional > competition had led an Ivy League institution to hold such a press > conference, we'd probably be driving around CF powered cars today. > That is an interesting idea. It is plausible. You cannot prove it. Alternate history is speculative by definition. We cannot rerun history to see what would happen if only X or Y had happened. I do not recall any press conferences at Ivy League schools announcing positive cold fusion results. I wonder if such a press conference today at MIT or Cornell would do any good. The conference at U. Missouri has not had any impact as far as I know. They are not Ivy League but they are respected. For a look at events at U. Utah in 1989, see: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/PetersonCtheguardia.pdf - Jed
