>From Jed: > WARNING TO ALL OUR READERS: THE REPORT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF > BOLOGNA WILL BE DELIVERED MONDAY , JAN 24, ANYTIME. > YOU WILL FIND IT ON THE JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND WE > ALREADY GIVE TO EVERYBODY TO REPRODUCE IT EVERYWHERE, FOR > ANY PURPOSE, FREE. > WARM REGARDS, > THE BOARD OF ADVISERS OF THE JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS > > Dear Luigi, > Yes there will be a Scientist talking about us [at ICCF16], no demo anyway: > no more demos before the start up of the 1 MW plant. > Warm Regards,
...and so most of use who reside in the honorable peanut gallery section will wait with baited breath for January 24 to roll around, "ANYTIME" soon. I certainly hope UoB's highly anticipated report will put to rest many concerns. I'm a patient man. I can wait a little longer. ;-) OTOH, I suspect the statement, "no more demos before the start up..." is likely to frustrate many - perhaps rightly so. It strikes me primarily as being a strategic corporate maneuver. Expressing an opinion similar to the lines of Jed's commentary, I too suspect corporate maneuvering of this nature will eventually turn out to be a futile attempt to establish complete and total dominance of the CF field from the ground floor. More glory to the Roman Empire, or not. Assuming they eventually do let the cat out of the bag, I suspect good old fashion corporate espionage and reverse engineering are likely to end up spreading-the-wealth in no time flat. Seems to me that it will be inevitable that espionage and reverse engineering will feverishly occur, ESPECIALLY in many developing countries where the desperate need for such devices will make a huge impact on living conditions of the local population. Shoot! Actually, it doesn't have to be illegal at all. All a smart-ass engineer has to do is tweak a copy of the original reactor just enuf to make it different and a new patent can be filed. Patent permutations are likely to start happening at blinding speeds. As Jed has already eloquently expressed, even if it might seem insulting at first glance the truth of the matter is that collecting 1% of a trillion dollar business is nothing to sneeze at! Granted, and in respectful deference to Mr. Lawrence's continued concerns about recent proceedings, they do not strike me personally as the actions of a scam operation in progress. It strikes me more as corporate maneuvering to position themselves at the top of the pecking order. (We are, after all, a very competitive species.) Yes, I realize I could still turn out to be amazingly wrong on most if not all points, but I'm not inclined to think so based on what I've gleaned between the lines so far. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
