A month ago I wrote a post entitled “The Boogeyman is coming” where I argued that there is no boogeyman, that the reason all previous free energy attempts failed was that they simply didn’t work. However I am now seeing the boogeyman attempting to squelch the e-cat right before my eyes.
When the AP reporter did not produce a report, FreeEnergyTruth cried censorship. (
http://freeenergytruth.blogspot.com/2011/10/ecat-censorship-ap-news-report-killed.html
)
I figured Monday was too early to make the clarion cry, but no more. It is now Tuesday evening, and:
- AP still hasn’t produced a report.
- Mark Gibbs, who initially published a very attractive article in Forbes has issued a rebuttal. (
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2011/10/30/believing-in-cold-fusion-and-the-e-cat/
. Why? New data? Or was he asked to? - Wikipedia has a deletion request on the “Energy Catalyzer topic”.
What is going on? Clearly there is a conspiracy of silence, a determination by the major media to back away from the e-cat. But why? Do they have new data suggesting that the e-cat really doesn’t work? Not that I know of. If so, why not publish that? Are they listening too much to Steve Krivit? Maybe.
I have three theories. It could be that all three are right.
Theory 1: The media is scared to be wrong. The media has a bad taste in its mouth specifically from the Pons and Fleishman event. They fear that their reputation will be besmirched if the e-cat is proven to be in error. What the media doesn’t seem to get is that they will be besmirched for not quickly reporting the news of the energy revolution that is upon us.
Theory 2: The scientific community is scared to be wrong. The fear of the scientific community, I think, is much different than that of the media. Because Pons and Fleishman were dismissed, because so many other cold fusion experiments were ignored, the scientific community will be accused of gross incompetence if/when the cold fusion discovery gets out. But it will get out. I guess if you are a 60 year old Physicist with a couple of diseases, you may hope that you can die before it does — but it will.
A 2004 Wired magazine article (
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.11/coldfusion_pr.html
) discusses a long list of cold fusion replications by major laboratories. That the ball was dropped on this is absolutely shocking! I suspect that one of these 3 theories play into why the ball was dropped these times as well.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.11/coldfusion_pr.html
) discusses a long list of cold fusion replications by major laboratories. That the ball was dropped on this is absolutely shocking! I suspect that one of these 3 theories play into why the ball was dropped these times as well.
Theory 3: The establishment is afraid of the change. This is kinda the classic. Businesses like Exxon should be scared. Some countries should be scared. I think that countries that will undergo a period of turmoil followed by a new freedom shouldn’t be scared, but their view is no more than 4 years down the road, only about 1 year right now, so the fact that the e-cat will produce turmoil is reason to fear, I guess. Certainly to the extent that political parties are funded by companies like Exxon, they have reason to fear.
I am looking both for responses to the motivation behind the conspiracy of silence, and ideas of what to do about it.
Tags: cold fusion, conspiracy, e-cat, faith, future, media, politics, proof
November 1, 2011 at 4:16 pm |
Great post Bruce. My worst fears are starting to be realized!!!!!
I don’t understand why the media would be scared to report anything. They report many things that are wrong and have never suffered from any real fallout. Never understood Scientists reluctance to speak out and be wrong. Way to guarded in my opinion.
Number 3 is what I think is happening. I think Oil and government has set out to kill this. Oil for the obvious reason. The government because of revenue issues and people independence, yes people independence.
We need to keep the pressure on to all media possible.
The AP contact link didn’t work and for the life of me I don’t see a contact link on their home page.
November 1, 2011 at 6:02 pm |
Big Science (MIT, etal) is heavily invested in receiving huge gov grants to develop hot fusion. It’s like the National Cancer Society fighting cancer. If they ever cure cancer, they’re out of business. Any cheap effective weapon against cancer is ridiculed or criminalized. Several alt-med practitioners have been forced to leave the US.
IMO, Rossi’s only chance is to pursue his dream is in an advanced but energy poor industrial country.
November 1, 2011 at 6:22 pm |
I do think you are right to consider how other countries will respond to the e-cat. It will not surprise me if Russia, China, India or others will pick up on this technology and make it fly while the “first world” is left to play catch-up. I read a very positive article by a Russian source like the University of Moscow or something. (I haven’t been able to find it, probably because its written in Russian, so it won’t google.)
November 1, 2011 at 7:19 pm
There was a Russian present at the demo. I wouldn’t trust the Russians. Their big moneymaker is natural gas. The eCat will impact natgas prices hardest, because natgas’ best use is heat production. Remember, the former richest tycoon in Russia is now rotting in a Russian prison because he dared challenge Putin.
China cannot be trusted. India would be a better bet. Germany, Sweden, S Korea, Japan, Singapore, and Chile would be my choices.
November 2, 2011 at 9:11 am
Russia is the biggest oil producer in the world. They would not like to lose the ability to manipulate eastern european countries in their sphere with oil and gas exports.
November 2, 2011 at 11:10 am
I think she was from Ukraine not from Russia! Ukraine would be very interested in the E-Cat because it is a great consumer of energy and buys almost all of it from the hated russians
November 2, 2011 at 11:11 am
From wiki: “Ukraine is one of Europe’s largest energy consumers; it consumes almost double the energy of Germany, per unit of GDP.[154] A great share of energy supply in Ukraine comes from nuclear power, with the country receiving most of its nuclear fuel from Russia. The remaining oil and gas, is also imported from the former Soviet Union. Ukraine is heavily dependent on its nuclear power.”
November 1, 2011 at 7:23 pm |
I believe in the E-cat, but I don’t think there is any boogeyman here. The idea that there is some boogeyman orchestrating all this sounds improbable. Though I do think the third theory will eventually come to pass.
Peace!
November 2, 2011 at 8:23 am |
If your premises are correct, then LENR/CF will never make it to market till someone that ‘discovers’ a way to make it work is willing to literally GIVE IT AWAY. It may be that the very idea is so valuable that it can’t be owned and controlled by anyone and will only become truly viable, (assuming it is real), when someone that has it is willing to give it away.
I hope you are reading here Mr. Rossi. You may have to trust an “open source” type of model that relies upon gratitude instead of contractural obligation in order to realize your own rewards from this discovery. It may not be fair, …but what is?
- Duece
November 2, 2011 at 9:06 am |
Put yourself in the AP’s shoes… this was either one of the biggest events in history or it was nothing. I hope for the former, but certainly can’t rule out the latter – and I have nothing riding on my decision (the AP has its reputation as a source of news).
Break it down: An unknown customer potentially purchased a product (that even the inventory doesn’t seem to fully understand) that probably produced a half kW of heat for a few hours in a location in close proximity to running generators… while burning a fuel that went through unknown preparation.
Like I said, I hope it is all legitimate and we’re on the verge of an energy revelution, and I’m sure that there is some truth in each of your theories, but I think the AP has plenty of reasons not to print this yet without jumping all the way to “boogeymen”.
November 2, 2011 at 2:56 pm |
I see that Fox news has an article. It does say it is or isn’t a breakthrough, but at least they are reporting on the issue.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/02/us-navy-first-in-line-for-italian-cold-fusion-plant/
November 2, 2011 at 4:18 pm |
That is great! Their skeptical tone is understandable, and it covers their fanny if the thing somehow proves bogus (though I am hard pressed to figure out how.) Now if AP can figure out how to write with a similar tone, I’ll have to repent yet again.
November 4, 2011 at 7:34 pm |
from NASA:
“Tests conducted at NASA Glenn Research Center in 1989 and elsewhere consistently showed evidence of anomalous heat during gaseous loading and unloading deuterium into bulk palladium. At one time called “cold fusion,” now called “low-energy nuclear reactions” (LENR), such effects are now published in peer-reviewed journals and are gaining attention and mainstream respectability. The instrumentation expertise of NASA GRC is applied to improve the diagnostics for investigating the anomalous heat in LENR.”
bottom of page: http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/sensors/PhySen/research.htm
November 5, 2011 at 1:58 pm |
Excellent report, Iggy.
Contrast your report with the statement by Mark Gibbs in Forbes:
“If an experiment that demonstrates cold fusion has really been replicated in the real world by real scientists then why would the scientific community ignore something so profound?”
The question Gibbs asks is correct. However, he asks it rhetorically using this simple logic as absolute proof that LENR has not been reproduced by “real scientists”. Obviously the “this proves that LENR is bogus argument is bogus.
However, the question must still be raised, but without the rhetorical conclusion:
“If an experiment that demonstrates cold fusion has really been replicated in the real world by real scientists then why would the scientific community ignore something so profound?”
November 10, 2011 at 3:34 am |
In the age of the Internet, there’s no excuse for such a breakthrough to be hidden from the public. If you want to protect your intellectual property, then you run the risk of your invention never seeing the light of day. If your priority is humanity, then you release the specs in a multitude of Internet locations and mass email, then the genie can never be put back in the bottle. The “rebuttal” looked like a healthy dose of scepticism to me. In this case, the truth can set us all free.
November 10, 2011 at 11:49 am |
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” – Thomas J. Watson, Sr., President of IBM, 1914 – 1976.
“A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth’s atmosphere.” — New York Times, 1936.
“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” — Lord Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist, president of the British Royal Society, 1895.
“This is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives.” — Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy during World War II, advising President Truman on the atomic bomb, 1945
“The cinema is little more than a fad. It’s canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.” -– Charlie Chaplin, actor, producer, director, and studio founder, 1916
“X-rays will prove to be a hoax.” — Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society, 1883.
“Fooling around with alternating current is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever.” — Thomas Edison
“Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.” — Dr Dionysys Larder (1793-1859), professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, University College London.
November 13, 2011 at 2:03 pm |
Iggy, History is loaded with these examples. I can personally attest to a few of them myself. After missing a few big opportunities in the early part of my career by being too skeptical, I learned to not discount things to quickly. That attitude has made me a lot more money than being skeptical. The world is built by dreamers.
November 20, 2011 at 8:40 pm |
Blackball all cold fusion rule:
http://lenr-canr.org/Collections/PatentOfficeMemo.jpg
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