You are so right Jed. (not that it means anything from me) But remember the chain:
Rossi -> Tom Darden (Cherokee/IH) -> Bill McDonough ( Cherokee/McDonough Challenge) ->Larry Page, Richard Branson, Elon Musk, Jimmy Wales etc see: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/HO64ew8KwyUfNz-RD63k69MTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0 So there is hope. Thanks to Frank Acland for re-digging that link. Regards. Patrick On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm less confident on getting the timing right for a breakout development >> than you. Even if we saw a spike of interest comparable to the one shown >> for the first Elforsk test, I very much doubt there will be more publicity >> following upon it than happened the last time. >> > > I agree. I doubt that ELFORSK wants people to know, other than the small > circle of people who follow this field. I doubt they will keep the paper > secret. They probably couldn't; it would leak. I expect them to publish at > arXiv again. > > > >> Even if the test results are stellar, I do not think they would cause a >> movement in the oil markets at this point. >> > > If stellar results could have any effect on public opinion or industry, > the whole world would have believed in cold fusion after McKubre published. > Experts such as Gerisher and later Duncan looked at the data and were > instantly convinced. Fully replicated, high sigma, top quality experimental > proof from hundreds of world class laboratories plus $18 will buy you a 30 > Hershey Bars at Amazon.com. That is all it is good for. > > > >> If I had to guess, there would need to be three or four credible, >> completely independent reproductions that were given high degree of >> visibility in the mainstream media before cold fusion is even sufficiently >> funded. >> > > The mainstream media would never publish any report, no matter how > convincing. Not from ELFORSK, EPRI or any other power company organization. > The physics establishment will say that power companies know nothing about > nuclear physics so they must be wrong. The mass media will only report on > what the physics establishment blesses. > > Other than that, the mass media would only report: > > 1. A famous mogul such as Bill Gates is funding cold fusion OR > > 2. A commercial cold fusion device has actually gone sale. > > Anything less newsworthy will never see the light of day. > > That does not matter much. We do not not need the mass media. What we need > is money, from someone like Gates, and we need experiments that work. > > - Jed > > -- Patrick www.tRacePerfect.com The daily puzzle everyone can finish but not everyone can perfect! The quickest puzzle ever!
