Rossi’s device hasn’t been verified. It has been observed by scientists and some are cautiously optimistic (Steven Krivit among them) but he’s a long way from having proven anything.
I believe the fair hearing was something like: “Prove it works. Can’t? Sorry!”
Fair hearing yes. But we can’t wait for fusion cold or hot. We need to be building nuclear plants now.
We need to drive down the cost of both electricity and vehicle fuel and get the economy going again.
We know now how open and enlightened and unbiased the scientific community/academia has been with respect to the global warming issue. They NEVER put anyone into Coventry or badmouth people who come up with hypotheses that differ from their conventional shared wisdom.
I have read some things from unbiased sources that make me think that our people ought to give the cold fusion technology a real shot. I think there might be something to it.
1. Successful experiments are on a very small scale and cannot be consistently replicated.
2. There is no widely accepted theory of the actual mechanism of Cold Fusion.
And I could add a third: the Cold Fusion community cannot attract significant levels of venture capital.
Question and answer session with Rossi
http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3126617.ece
I hate that they are using the term cold fusion. Rossi isn’t calling this cold fusion. He calls it Low Energy Nuclear Reaction or LENR. Everybody is hesitant to use the fusion term because they aren’t sure exactly what is happening yet.
He has done some tests and is doing a number of the right things. He doesn’t seem to make claims he can’t back. So far, so good.