Steven Krivit wrote:
I'm sure Shanahan is finding immeasurable entertainment in these
messages. Particularly your comment about "certified fruitcake."
It is the season, though, isn't it?
Absolutely! And for the record, I'm crazy about fruitcake, especially
made with cognac. I don't know why people dislike it so.
I think that people like Shanahan and Morrison are good for cold
fusion, and I appreciate their contributions. They make the
researchers look good. They are good foils. Anyone familiar with the
facts will see, for example, that Shanahan has a screw loose when he claims:
1. There is no opposition to cold fusion.
2. And because there is no opposition, researchers have been able to
convince organizations such as the ENEA and the Italian Physical
Society to sponsor conferences, and they have magically hoodwinked
experts such as Robert Duncan to believe there is ~1 W input and ~20
W output at Energetics Technology.
He honestly believes that people such as the President of the Italian
Physical Society and Duncan are gullible fools who cannot understand
basic chemistry, and they have overlooked Shanahan's technical
objections. Shanahan, Morrison, Taubes, Park and these others do have
monumental self confidence! You have to hand it to them. They think
they know more about electrochemistry than Fleischmann or Bockris;
more about calorimetry than Duncan; more about tritium than the top
experts at Los Alamos and BARC, and more about theoretical physics
than Schwinger.
- Jed
