Posted on 12/09/2011 1:00:07 PM PST by Liberty1970
Presidential Candidate Hopes For Cold Fusion
December 9, 2011
A little over two weeks ago, we were talking about Andrea Rossi’s invitation from Senator Bruce Tarr to visit Boston to explore the possibility of eCat manufacturing in Massachusetts. Reading the tealeaves, it seems that Tarr maintained a healthy touch of scepticism but even so, the invitation was remarkable and I wondered then if we were seeing the tip of a larger movement among the power-brokers towards the possibility that cold fusion was real. Many wondered if Rossi was simply looking for investors, hoping to do a deal under the table for buckets of money in one of those tiresome over-complicated fraud stories they make up.
Today, we get another surprise. David Bernstein of the Boston Pheoenix spotted something unusual in the transcript of a Washington Examiner interview with US Presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Almost jokingly, he mentions cold-fusion and his hope that a solution can be found so that it can be used to produce electricity. As Bernstein notes:
It is unusual, to say the least, that a campaigning Presidential candidate would know anything about cold fusion, let alone recalling off the top of his head the university that conducted an experiment more than two decades ago. It is even odder that a campaigning Presidential candidate would voluntarily cite, in an on-the-record interview, the promise of a science considered by most physicists to be a total hoax. Frankly, you might expect it from Newt Gingrich, not Romney.
The full transcript is here and the audio is on YouTube and embedded below. Romney:
I do believe in basic science. I believe in participating in space. I believe in analysis of new sources of energy. I believe in laboratories, looking at ways to conduct electricity with — with cold fusion, if we can come up with it. It was the University of Utah that solved that. We somehow can’t figure out how to duplicate it.
Listen from 3.30 on, to get the comments in context. It’s worth doing this because you will hear him chuckle as he mentions cold fusion. It left me wondering if he was making a joke. I decided he was not but cannot discount the possibility or that the remark was an error (confusing cold fusion for something else). Is this a coincidence too many? Are we truly beginning to see signs of an underlying change in the landscape? As with most things in this story, we cannot be sure. Phrased in such a light-hearted manner, if Rossi pans out, Romney can point to this record and look pretty damned smart. If the eCat does not live up to its promise, he can always say he was joking or that it was a slip of the tongue. Clever, really. He should have been a politician.
Only those who are totally clueless about science (which, unfortunately, is most of them).
"What limitless cheap energy would do is light a fire under the world's economy. The enviros are petrified by the idea of what the world will be like when the whole world achieves the standard of living the US presently has.
With an energy source as cheap and plentiful as LANR appears to be, the entire global populace could be raised to the "standard of living the US has" and STILL clean up the planet. Recycling on a scale and to a degree that is currently impossible should provide most of the resources.
And once we have CHEAP access to orbit, most of the resources will come from, and a lot of the production will be done there.
"And they have a point. Just producing the meat needed would have major impact on the environment.
Only on the tops of their heads.
It’s the folks that make an irritating habit of going out of their way promoting every Ecat thread just to drop the same blog press release droppings over and over and over without even digesting or responding to the data in the article in question that earned that moniker or they would know they’re just suckers.
I rewrote it for truth.
I just find it hilarious that the ecat fanboys post every press release from all of the ecat blogs. Yet, you don’t see the irony, perhaps that isn’t all you’re failing to see...
Which is just flat out wrong. I've made a careful point of distinguishing between newsworthy updates and the less significant items, and only posted the former. Most updates at the Ecat news sites I do not post here, and many of them are not posted by anyone else either. Anyone can go to the site links (ecatnews.com and e-catworld.com), and see that you are lying on this point.
As is plain from my posts on the subject, I am not a 'fanboy' by any stretch of the word. I do find the subject very intriguing. But it is not a crime to be curious about something that could have momentous implications. Your 'thought police' attitude is tiresome.
So of all the non-news fluff about Rossi you pick this non-mention-of-Rossi by RINO Mitt Romney to copy and paste on FR.
Your 'thought police' attitude is tiresome.
It's not a "thought police" attitude. We're just pointing out how lame you are, fan boy.
Your 'thought police' attitude is tiresome.
You're inability to not think that every post is about you is most tiresome and likely the sign of a larger mental issue. You should probably see a Neurologist to catch it before it's irreversible. After all, we care for you.
So, you, yourself include yourself as one of the folks that do what I was talking about, yes?
I Happen to be in Europe at the moment but maybe I should just have my wife deal with you. See zou in a week or so...
Yes, I must be Rossi”s biggest fanboy, do you even read these threads??
I never thought I would say this IPhones are pretty cool.
It sure is nice in Budapest!!!!
Mitt “Stone-Cold Fusion” Romney! lol Love it :)
I’m no brainiac and not even close to knowing much about physics but I very much doubt that mankind understands it all. Witness the recent reports of faster than light particles being detected in the CERN Swiss lab and also some new possibly neutrino-like particles being detected emanating from the sun that change the decay rate of radioactive isotopes.
*rate should be rates
Romney making a ringing endorsement of Rossi... wow, how you guys will spin Rossi’s fake news stories from his sites.
If the Pope was giving a sermon, Rossi would claim it was about his scam
That's called putting words in people's mouths. You are wrong on all points.
1. No one has claimed a 'ringing' endorsement.
2. It is clearly expressed in the write-up that the author isn't even sure Romney had the Ecat in mind; that was just a logical surmise based on Rossi's recent trip to Romney's home state of Massachusetts and meeting with Republican leadership there.
3. My own bracketed comment in the title was meant to be light-hearted, though I'm sure that is lost on the closeminded pseudoskeptics. Note also the presence of 2 question marks, to further emphasize the uncertainty surrounding this report.
So much for claiming a 'ringing endorsement'!
It is meant to invoke the false image even though there is absolutely no doubt that Romney doesn’t even know anything about this guy.
Why don’t you try to find Romney even mentioning Rossi before repeating this junk.
A lie is still a lie if the purpose is to deceive. It doesn’t matter the exact form of the words, only the intention of deceit.
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