RC Macaulay wrote:
Jed , I sent a link to our high speed unit at the shop. A PFD file of
2.74 mb is a little high for the boonies.
Oops. I did not notice it came out so big. I will try to slim it down.
In a few words would you give us your thoughts on WHY?? the enemies of CF
are such. What drives these people ? Hatred alone cannot account for their
energy and dedication . You have studied this question at length and may
have the best insight.
I think the best way to find out is to ask the skeptics themselves. Read
the books by Huizenga and Hoffman, and the comments by the DoE review panel
member #7, here:
http://lenr-canr.org/Collections/DoeReview.htm#StormsRothwellCritique
They say that they oppose cold fusion because they are sure it is false.
They feel it violates basic laws of physics, it simply cannot be real, and
it is a waste of time and resources to study such things. They react the
way you or I would if someone proposed building a human-powered
propeller-driven machine to fly to the moon.
Srinivasan told me that the guy who crushed cold fusion research in India
felt this way. In Japan a famous professor named Arima has been on the
warpath against cold fusion from day one, and he has often used his
influence to deny funding and attack researchers. He says the whole idea of
cold fusion is preposterous and impossible and it should not be taken
seriously for one second.
I assume these people mean what they say. I have no reason to think they
are being dishonest, or hiding their motivations. Some people have
suggested that the opposition to cold fusion is coming from vested
interests in the oil industry. I doubt that. My impression is that no one
in the fossil fuel industry takes cold fusion seriously enough to oppress it.
The only people with a vested interest in opposing cold fusion that I know
of are the plasma fusion researchers at MIT. They are afraid that some of
their research money will be diverted to cold fusion. They were livid with
anger in March 1989. They planted stories in the newspapers, they ranted,
they raved, they held a party to celebrate the death of cold fusion, they
even reportedly called for the arrest and imprisonment of Fleischmann and
Pons. However, the fundamental reason they oppose the research is that they
think it is nonsense. If they thought it might be real they would try and
do it themselves.
- Jed
