Re: [Vo]: Cold fusion back on the menu (ACS) 2007 conference

2007-03-23 Thread Terry Blanton
On 3/23/07, Jed Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Perhaps senility? Or the effect of that tree that almost knocked him off? For which I advocate a new national holiday: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbor_Day After all, it *does* sequester CO2. Terry

Re: [Vo]: Cold fusion back on the menu (ACS) 2007 conference

2007-03-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
Steven Krivit wrote: I have watched and listened to every word the man has publicly (and to a certain extent privately) uttered on the subject for the last five years. You have been paying close attention to Robert Park?!? Please stop wasting your time on inanities. This is like watching turd

Re: [Vo]: Cold fusion back on the menu (ACS) 2007 conference

2007-03-23 Thread Steven Krivit
Jed, I have watched and listened to every word the man has publicly (and to a certain extent privately) uttered on the subject for the last five years. There is a clear progression. Off the top of my head, he was reported to have said on a Canadian radio show something about not buying it till

Re: [Vo]: Cold fusion back on the menu (ACS) 2007 conference

2007-03-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
Edmund Storms wrote: I suggest Park has simply reiterated his belief that the Jones claims are real but not what Pons and Fleischmann discovered. Ah, yes. The Jones ploy. I should have seen it coming. In the past Park has excoriated Jones, so he must have someone else in mind as the replacem

Re: [Vo]: Cold fusion back on the menu (ACS) 2007 conference

2007-03-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: As you had previously eluded, it would appear that those like Park find it convenient to trick themselves into believing that LENR is NOT CF. I once read a hilarious Japanese magazine article about Iwamura's research. It included a comparison table and several pa

Re: [Vo]: Cold fusion back on the menu (ACS) 2007 conference

2007-03-23 Thread Edmund Storms
I suggest Park has simply reiterated his belief that the Jones claims are real but not what Pons and Fleischmann discovered. This has been the attitude of the skeptics from the very beginning. In short, I see no change. I wrote to both Park and Garwin, describing by book and asking if they wou

Re: [Vo]: Cold fusion back on the menu (ACS) 2007 conference

2007-03-23 Thread Steven Vincent Johnson
HI Jed, > The Chemistry World magazine article that DonW posted > here has a surprising statement: > > "Bob Park, at the University of Maryland . . . > concedes that 'there are some curious reports - not > cold fusion, but people may be seeing some unexpected > low-energy nuclear reactions'." >

Re: [Vo]: Cold fusion back on the menu (ACS) 2007 conference

2007-03-23 Thread Michel Jullian
can't find the exact quote. Michel - Original Message - From: "Jed Rothwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 9:33 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Cold fusion back on the menu (ACS) 2007 conference > The Chemistry World magazine article that D

Re: [Vo]: Cold fusion back on the menu (ACS) 2007 conference

2007-03-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
The Chemistry World magazine article that DonW posted here has a surprising statement: "Bob Park, at the University of Maryland . . . concedes that 'there are some curious reports - not cold fusion, but people may be seeing some unexpected low-energy nuclear reactions'." Coming from him, tha

[Vo]: Cold fusion back on the menu (ACS) 2007 conference

2007-03-22 Thread DonW
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2007/March/22030701.asp Cold fusion back on the menu 22 March 2007 Most chemists would rather forget all about cold fusion. After the barrage of criticism dismissing Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann's sensational 1989 claims that nuclei could be forced t