To avoid making yourself ill with worry, let me add a bit of
optimism. Cold fusion has left the garage level of research and
entered the level of a well funded laboratory. This is progress. The
theory has left the amateur level of ideas and entered the level of
the trained professional. This is also progress. This is similar to
the development of all technologies. You would not consider developing
a commercial airliner in your basement or be able to contribute to an
understanding or aeronautical engineering would you? The field is
growing in spite of such people as Robert Park, who is only a visible
member of a group of people who fight all new ideas simply because
they have such limited imaginations. These people represent one of the
characteristics of the human mind that has evolved as a defense from
the other extreme that wants change without bothering to consider the
consequences.
Ed
On Jun 18, 2009, at 6:56 AM, Chris Zell wrote:
So, individually, we stand almost no chance of contributing
anything to cold fusion, nor has any particularly practical way been
conceived to power a vehicle with it.(??!)
Many of us have to worry about having any savings, job or retirement
at all, much less hundreds of thousands for a professional lab. Is
there any point to discussing cold fusion?
Was Parksie right in a practical way, that it's just a curiosity?
Where's my Prozac?
