Up until the 20th Anniversary and the 60 Minutes broadcast, nearly every reference to cold fusion in the mass media was either an attack, a joke, or cold fusion as example of something impossible, egghead, or mistaken. In recent weeks I have seen few articles like that, and several like these two:
A letter to the editor in the Salt Lake Tribune: http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_12327759?source=rss QUOTE: ". . . Until cold fusion or hydrogen is developed (years away), nuclear power is our best option; proposed alternative energy options are cruel jokes." Here one at physorg.com: http://www.physorg.com/news161024861.html QUOTE "5. Nuclear: Perhaps the most controversial form of renewable energy is nuclear energy. Electricity is produced from the energy released by nuclear reactions. While fission (splitting) is the main source used today, interest continues in developing cold fusion." This links to another recent physorg.com article: http://www.physorg.com/news157046734.html Little things like this can have a large, cumulative effect. The physorg article has generated 40 visits to LENR-CANR.org in recent days. The CBS broadcast did not accomplish all that some people hoped it might, but it quelled the drumbeat of opposition and ridicule in the mass media, and behind the scenes it may be setting in motion serious interest and funding. Perhaps things are working out like in the last scene of the movie "Force 10 from Navarone" -- which I shall not describe, so as not to spoil the movie for those who have not seen it! It is an otherwise forgettable movie. - Jed
