John Coviello wrote:
I had no idea that the situation was that dire for the ICCFs. I hope
there were some late participants planning on coming to this year's ICCF
in Japan. What was the high water mark for the ICCF conferences?
Judging by the group photo I would say it was ICCF-3, in Japan. That was
also the peak in the number of papers submitted to the proceedings. I have
a handy index EndNote index of papers developed by Britz and Storms. It may
not have every single paper, but here are totals for each ICCF conference:
1, 38
2, 62
3, 102
4, 93
5, 77
6, 70
7, 93
8, 69
9, 94
10, 93
11, 68
As I said, after ICCF-7, many of the papers are rehashes of previous work,
or weird theory papers, or the like. Hot air speculation, rather than
laboratory results.
I feel momentum in cold fusion, momentum that will not be stopped until
cold fusion enters the mainstream either through undeniable experimental
results or commercialization. . . .
I wish I could feel the same wave of the future approaching, but alas I do
not. There is one hopeful sign. Interest in LENR-CANR.org appears to be at
a steady state. We may even be seeing a modest uptick in the number of
readers, although this could be because we are now in the middle of the
academic semester. I updated the graphs recently, here:
http://lenr-canr.org/News.htm#Downloads
Over the past year our audience has shifted somewhat from the US to Europe,
Russia, China and India. (There is also a mirror site in China, at Tsinghua
U., but the university has no way to measure how many people are accessing
it.) Lately we have seen a lot of interest from people South America.
- Jed
