Re: [Vo]:ARPA-E announces funding for 8 cold fusion projects

2023-02-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
Andrew Meulenberg wrote: > Do we get a chance to see what other projects were proposed (at least > titles)? It may be that these eight were the best of a poor selection. > I did not see any list of proposed projects. Perhaps there was one? I was not following the story closely. Someone on the

Re: [Vo]:ARPA-E announces funding for 8 cold fusion projects

2023-02-19 Thread Andrew Meulenberg
Jed, Do we get a chance to see what other projects were proposed (at least titles)? It may be that these eight were the best of a poor selection. On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 10:04 AM Jed Rothwell wrote: > I put this DoE announcement in the LENR-CANR.org News section. Today I > added this somewhat

Re: [Vo]:ARPA-E announces funding for 8 cold fusion projects

2023-02-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
Related to this, here is the DoE ARPA-E list of 39 Teeming Partners who are working on cold fusion. The heading on this list says: *“By enabling and publishing the Teaming Partner List, ARPA-E is not endorsing, sponsoring, or otherwise evaluating the qualifications of the individuals and

[Vo]:OT: Calling Bullshit

2023-02-19 Thread H L V
The philosophy of bullshit. How do we define bullshit? Does intention matter? Calling bullshit as a speech act. ~ 11 minutes https://youtu.be/S_ommr0Te4A Harry

Re: [Vo]:ARPA-E announces funding for 8 cold fusion projects

2023-02-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
I put this DoE announcement in the LENR-CANR.org News section. Today I added this somewhat pessimistic note: Some cold fusion researchers feel that these eight projects were poorly chosen. The goals are framed as if cold fusion is the same as plasma fusion. People made this mistake in 1989. For