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Astroturfing Cold Fusion:

Donal — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:37:52 +0000

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Astroturfing Cold Fusion: Making the Promise Seem Real

I’ve been watching the Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) world for the last few months waiting for something tangible as far as real commercial products go but, to date, there’s nothing of consequence to report.

Sure, Leonardo, Defkalion and Brillouin have made all made announcements but as far as anything proven to actually work it’s still “jam tomorrow“.

Now, before all of you LENR boosters start getting all wound up, yes, I will agree that there has been a lot of interesting theorizing and some intriguing laboratory experiments concerning Low Energy Nuclear reactions and, if the reports are to be believed, the latter provide evidence that LENR is a real phenomena (albeit one that appears to defy the known laws of physics).

But the real question is “how real?” Is LENR real enough to provide continuous and significant “over unity” performance (that is, producing more power than is put into the system)? So far, not that I’m aware of.

Look like the big boys with

Job — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:28:16 +0000

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Look like the big boys with all the $ (and jobs at stake) wanna pick a taxpayer fight??

OK ..I'm all game for it. Bring it on or play nice. Warning.

JOB

You have quite a reputation,

Donal — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:52:00 +0000

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You have quite a reputation, Jed—or should I call you Abd? "... banned indefinitely from Wikipedia for disruption and advocacy using an army of sockpuppet accounts"

That site you linked is also blacklisted.

But then I don't know much about cold fusion.

You do not appear to know

Jed Rothwell — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:22:00 +0000

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You do not appear to know much about cold fusion. I suggest you review the literature before commenting on it.

The energy landscape may be

Mark Goldes — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:05:00 +0000

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The energy landscape may be about to change dramatically.

Black Swans, highly improbable energy innovations with deep implications, are being born.

See Moving Beyond Oil and Cheap Green on the Aesop Institute website for a few of them.

Severe solar storms can collapse critical power grids worldwide for months or years. That should sharply accelerate decentralization of electric power.

Nuclear plants without grid power for a few days become meltdown candidates.

See “400 Chernobyls?” on the Aesop Institute site.

An emergency is looming that is all but unrecognized. It can destroy millions of lives.

If we wake up soon enough and take action to prevent the damage, which other Black Swan technologies may make possible as soon as this summer, the nation might insure its survival.

And if we are spared the solar surprise, we will have produced a positive result - energy independence and a permanent decline in the price of oil and gas.

Thanks for this, Donal. I try

Verified Atheist — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:49:19 +0000

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Thanks for this, Donal. I try to keep up with multiple fields of science, but it ain't easy. You make it a little easier.