Hey Vorts...
I met Naudin and interviewed him a bit but he declined to go on record.
I know who is paying his salary though I can't disclose it. It is a major agency in France.
He was quite nervous about me talking with him and I found that interesting.
I am undecided as to whether he is a benefit or a detriment to CF.
He clearly has a very sexed-up website and makes it easy for amateurs to get their hands on CF and give it a shot.
Is this a good thing? I don't know.
Does he give sufficient and respectful credit to Mizuno? I have not spent the time to analyze his site to determine this.
My bets are the following:
1. That Naudin attracted his sugar daddy by the strong efforts he has made over the years to create his excellent web presence.
2. The people who pay his salary, who were at ICCF-11 will soon figure out who the real players, the original scientists in this game are.
Now that Naudin has made it to the big time (as far as sponsorship), I'll be quite curious if the CF dev and dissemination continues on his website.
He didn't forbid me to take his picture - so I'll have a nice mugshot of him in an upcoming newsletter.
That's about all I know about JLN.
Like Jed, I am working to dig out from data and will have stuff going up on www.newenergytimes.com shortly.
At 08:42 AM 11/8/2004 -0800, you wrote:
From: Terry Blanton (in reference of the elebaorate Mizuno presentation, which immediate appeared in great detail on Naudin's web-site)
> A *net* reduction in entropy? Is nothing sacred?
Not to Naudin, that is for sure.
I am curious whether Jed or any of the other vortex attendees had occassion to meet Naudin?
He certainly has his "ear to the ground" like no other free-energy researcher on the planet, and despite allegations of being more copy-cat that creative genius (probably he is a good helping of both), he must be well-funded... which in France, often means that the *bureaucracy* is somehow involved... after all, they not only invented the term and perfected the institution to its ultimate stage of usefulness (or "maximum emmerdement," shall we say)... in effect the bureaucracy is the French national condescension to Communist ideals, which surely would have taken root without it as an weighty counterbalance - IOW a patronizing gesture has now become a dominant way of life... and not a bad one... nor an efficient one either.
Of course, "Naudin" like the more infamous and infinitely more boring Professor Nicholas Bourbaki, could end up being not a single person at all, but a dedicated group of experimenters(doubtful), but ... as they say in "Private Eye",
....I think we should be told *-)
Jones
