Two things are clear: 1) The E-Cat HT paper will not have a proximate effect on the academic discourse, as it is not independently peer-reviewed and published.
2) The pseudo-skeptics have long-ago lost the academic discourse -- having abandoned any participation in the peer-reviewed independently published literature and have been completely reliant on the media and political echo-chamber <http://newenergytimes.com/v2/audio/Beaudette-MIT-04062004.mp3> . The proximate significance of this paper, therefore, is now outside of academic discourse entirely and threatens the stability of the media and political echo-chamber. How? Because this is a commercial device and rational evaluation of the paper is going to motivate money.
