Jed Rothwell wrote:
Do we really want some future R&D lab wasting precious millions, pursuing Farnsworth's deception - which because of sloppy journalism gets repeated enough time to make it sound authoritative?
That is preposterous!
Not at all. To personalize a comparison related to how fast $$ can add up, when following simple false info or false claims - think about how much your time is worth and how many hours you spent on the simple false lead that the Greg Watson spread about the self-powering SMOT?
Multiply that by the number of others who participated, worldwide probably, and think about the value of the man-hours which was spent on something which, even if it were true, was never going to amount to very much towards solving the energy crisis.
I could easily see a future Bill Gates, or future Oil baron spending millions on any number of old ideas which never quite made it, based on authoritative-sounding reports of unknown accuracy.
This would be especially true if a breakthrough were made in another field which made the Fusor seem more promising (such as confirmation of the hydrino, for instance).
Jones
