This is one reason I focus on promoting "Excess Heat: Why Cold Fusion Research Prevailed" by Charles Beaudette.
My own interest in cold fusion was curtailed by my attempt to get a project going at the Roselle Street offices of Science Applications International Corporation<http://maps.google.com/maps?ix=heb&q=san+diego,+ca&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x80d9530fad921e4b:0xd3a21fdfd15df79,San+Diego,+CA&gl=us&ei=tzMYT7bEGOjCsQKpip3CCw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CC4Q8gEwAA>. This is where SAIC's nuclear plant stack monitoring development and manufacture was located and where much of SAIC's the Strategic Defense Initiative work was going on. I managed the software department and had developed the control software for the stack monitor. My effort was curtailed before 1989 was out by a CalTech graduate who had studied under Lewis. I had already over-extended my credibility by going beyond my expertise and suffered professional damage as a result. As a consequence I failed to follow up on cold fusion in subsequent years, turning instead to working with fusion researchers in general to draft legislative reform of fusion development by reorienting it toward objective prize awards for technical milestones independent of the technical approach taken<http://www.oocities.org/jim_bowery/BussardsLetter.html> . Had someone handed me Beaudette's book in 2000, even at that late date my life would have taken a very different turn. I regret that it took the Rossi controvery to get me to revisit the history of cold fusion research by reading Beaudette's essential book. On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>wrote: > That worked out well. Good job Andrea! See: > > > http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/dick-smith-warns-against-investment-in-cold-fusion-technology/story-e6frg8y6-1226247794568 > > - Jed > >
