One of the Wiley editors sent me a cheerful note saying that Krivit is an editor, not a writer. I think this editor is unaware of the upcoming textbook. He cited this: "Nuclear Energy Encyclopedia." The sections on cold fusion are indeed edited by Krivit. Here are cold fusion sections of the table of contents:
Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions. 41. Development of Low-Energy Nuclear Reaction Research (Steven B. Krivit). 42. Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions: A Three-Stage Historical Perspective (Leonid I. Urutskoev). 43. Low-Energy Nuclear Transmutations (Mahadeva Srinivasan, George Miley and Edmund Storms). 44. Wisdom-Larsen Theory: Possible Explanation of LENR (Joseph M. Zawodny and Steven B. Krivit). 45. Potential Applications of LENR (Winthrop Williams and Joseph M. Zawodny). Item #43 was extracted and circulated at the conference. It was pretty good. I have not read the other items. But based on the other books edited by Krivit they are probably okay. I don't know about #41, but as long as he stays away from theory and conspiracy theory it should be okay. I wrote back to the editor: [Krivit] is a fine editor, too! I have read the [extracted article from] Nuclear Energy Encyclopedia articles, and it was excellent. However, at the ICCF-16 conference, he said he is starting a new project at Wiley which will take a few years. This will be a textbook. The people who wrote the Encyclopedia articles, Srinivasan, Storms and others were at the conference. They assumed he would ask them to contribute to the new textbook as well. So they approached him and asked about his plans. They were disconcerted when he told them to shut up and go away. (Literally.) They asked me to ask you what the heck is going on. I don't want to poke into your business -- or Krivit's business. But that was a strange way for an editor from a company such as yours to deal with distinguished professors. Maybe he was having a bad week . . . As I said, as long as the upcoming textbook will be written by experts and edited by Krivit, I am sure it will be fine. I really appreciate the fact that your Encyclopedia included those articles about cold fusion. It is a controversial subject, as you know. By the way, I am just Mr. Rothwell. No PhD. My background is linguistics, programming, and translating Japanese technical articles into English. - Jed
