At 12:50 AM 9/17/2012, Alan Fletcher wrote:
It's also interesting that he's down-playing the applications of the
eCat -- he's already said that its use in cars is decades away, and
aircraft, never (despite NASA/Boeing penciling it in on a 15-year time frame).
That study has been given way too much significance. This was a "what
if" study, "what if NiH LENR is real."
The study was a bit naive. It seems to assume that reality will
automatically mean that engineering is possible. That, in fact, has
been an assumption of the pseudoskeptics.
"If cold fusion is real, how come we don't have a cold fusion hot
water heater? after all, it's been over twenty years. Obviously, it's
not real."
"Real" <> "practical"
Especially if most physicists, who might have the tools to actually
figure out what is going on, dismiss it as a fantasy, leaving the
field to a few specialists applying quantum field theory, like
Takahashi. This may take a major effort, one person is not enough!
