What's also strange about Steve Jones is that he has been at the center of the 9-11 debate over "thermite" being used to bring down buildings. It seems he's both status quo on cold fusion, but insanely anti-status quo on 9-11 Truth. Bizarre? Or am I crazy one? I draw no conclusions about any of this, I just note it as interesting he's been involved in two of the biggest "scandals" of the last 25 years.
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Terry Blanton <[email protected]> wrote: > And who has been paying him? From wikipedia: > > Muon-catalyzed fusion[edit] > > In the mid-1980s, Jones and other BYU scientists worked on what he > referred to as Cold Nuclear Fusion in aScientific American article > (the process is currently known as muon-catalyzed fusion to avoid > confusion with the cold fusion concept proposed by Pons and > Fleischman). Muon-catalyzed fusion was a field of some interest during > the 1980s as a potential energy source; however, its low energy output > appears to be unavoidable (because of alpha-muon sticking losses). > Jones led a research team that, in 1986, achieved 150 fusions per muon > (average), releasing over 2,600 MeV of fusion energy per muon, a > record which still stands.[15] > > Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann (Pons and Fleischmann or P&F) > commenced their work at approximately the same time. Jones became > aware of their work when they applied for research funding from the > Department of Energy (DOE), after which the DOE forwarded their > proposal to Jones for peer review. When Jones realized that their work > was similar, he and P&F agreed to release their papers to Nature on > the same day (March 24, 1989). However, P&F announced their results at > a press event the day before. Jones faxed his paper to Nature.[16] > > A New York Times article says that although peer reviewers were > harshly critical of P&F's research, they did not apply such criticism > to Jones' significantly more modest, theoretically supported findings. > Although critics insisted that Jones's results were probably caused by > experimental error,[17] the majority of the reviewing physicists > claimed that he was a careful scientist. Later research and > experiments have supported Jones' metallic "cold fusion" reports.[18] > >
