At 03:16 PM 12/3/2004, you wrote:
[Original Message] From: What's New <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Akira Kawasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12/3/2004 12:11:50 PM Subject: WHAT'S NEW Friday, December 03, 2004
WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 3 Dec 04 Washington, DC
1. COLD, COLD FUSION: SO AFTER 15 YEARS, WHAT HAS BEEN LEARNED? We've learned that DOE should stop playing games with the Federal Advisory Committee Act while shrouding its review in secrecy http://www.aps.org/WN/WN04/wn091704.cfm. Beyond that, we haven't learned much. The report released this week is an attempt to summarize individual comments from 18 unidentified reviewers. The conclusions at the end of the report were: 1) "significant progress has been made in sophistication of calorimeters," and 2)"conclusions reached by reviewers today are similar to those found in the 1989 review." That's it? After 15 years we've got better calorimeters? The 1989 review called for no more cold fusion research. Good advice. Proponents now prefer "low energy nuclear reactions," but "no more" is still good advice.
Thanks, Akira. Not much a summary.
Better excerpts and summary at the COLD FUSION TIMES - the Uncensored cold fusion site
http://world.std.com/~mica/cft.html
Latest links to, and information from, the just-issued DOE Report,
and to this week's Nature, Salt Lake City, and New York Times articles about it.
