Have to disagree with Jed's conclusions as to the extreme level of opposition that this will face... I don't think there is any situation in the history of modern economics that can compare with what is happening... Sure, there are powerful centers that don't want to see this technology make it to market... but there are 100 times that many powerful entities that want to have a piece of the pie... that want to exploit the innumerable opportunities that this globally disruptive technology will have. If that first 1MW plant starts up, and makes it to operational status, barring some minor glitches, there will be no stopping further development.
-Mark _____ From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 5:17 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Comic gets it right Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote: With the exception of the natural gas industry and the centralized electric industry, all cold fusion obstructive forces are unpopular, weak and can be overcome. I think you are right. I hope you are right! Still, I expect severe opposition, especially in the early stages. If the public gets the wrong idea about cold fusion at first -- that it is dangerous or it resembles fission -- the public relations campaign may be arduous, and it may fail. The opposition will make every effort to give people the wrong idea. That fellow Bjorn Lomborg is the most skilled person at doing this I have ever seen. His ability to twist facts in support of the unsupportable is awesome. I expect they will hire him to lead the charge against cold fusion. The battle against cold fusion for the last 22 years was almost successful. It almost extinguished the research. It was carried out by a handful of academic hacks -- Robert Park, Maddox and a few dozen others. They had the quiet backing of many professors and editors who are sure that cold fusion is pathological science. (They remain as sure of that as they were in March 1989.) They used no money, but only their positions of power and ability to publish ad hominem attacks in the Washington Post and other mass media. The next battle will be in far larger in scale, and I am sure that hundreds of millions will be spent by the opposition on advertising campaigns and bribes to members of Congress, mass media reporters, and others. It will not be easy to overcome this. - Jed
