On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Daniel Rocha <danieldi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not everything there is a scam. At least one is not, which is plasma > focus, which they frequently feature among the top 5 and is based in an old > technology. But they never claimed overunity, just 1/100000 of the input > energy, in the form of neutrons. Actually, a few of their shots is enough > to kill a person. Their aim is to achieve extremely hot fusion with proton > and boron 11 (which is the novelty and never attempted before) at 7billionK > without neutron waste, "only" a huge quantity of high energy x-rays formed > by collapsing plasma. > OK, I admit I didn't review that one in detail but maybe if I had, I'd have found a much more encompassing claim than that. Be that as it may, maybe they did get one right out of a dozen or more. But basically, they're merchants of "woo". They're not, in my estimation, anything resembling journalists. It is harmful to our society to have people believing that you can run a car on water without fuel or even that adding on-board electrolysis to an internal combustion engine will somehow magically double it's mileage figures. But that's typical of what they do. And worse yet, they claim such nonsense is being suppressed by oil interests, power companies, government agencies -- you choose something and they have probably blamed suppression on it. People who believe Allan and Mills and think of them as reliable journalists are at high risk for being scammed by unscrupulous merchants through no fault of their own. Such writing is thus unconscionable.
