Forbes.com renews attention to widely disparaged “low-energy nuclear reactions”

Physics Today ^ | May 28, 2013 | Steven T. Corneliussen

[Kevmo]

The Cold Fusion/LENR Ping List

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/coldfusion/index?tab=articles

---

http://lenr-canr.org/

[Paladin2]

Since (gov’t funded) Hot Fusion didn’t work out so well over the last ~30 years, cold fusion is debunked?

[Kevmo]

Well, not in this Physics Today article.

But a converse attempt is made here:
http://news.discovery.com/tech/alternative-power-sources/5-reasons-cold-fusion-bunk-130528.htm

The added wrinkle is that since Cold Fusion is not Hot Fusion, some how it is debunked.

[exDemMom]

Since (gov’t funded) Hot Fusion didn’t work out so well over the last ~30 years, cold fusion is debunked?

Just this morning, I noticed that that giant hot fusion reactor in the sky is still going strong. Last night, I recall seeing thousands of hot fusion reactors speckling the sky. I expect I'll be seeing hot fusion reactors in the sky for the foreseeable future.

If "cold fusion" didn't violate so many laws of physics, and were a real phenomenon, we'd have seen it already in nature.

[RetiredTexasVet]

You would but pixie dust, which is not a naturally occurring element in nature, is absolutely necessary for cold fusion.

[Deathtomarxists]

We use to get cold fusion reactions all the time back in the late 80s at Purdue university. Some cheap beer, bag of white castles and a lot can fuse on a cold Indiana night...

[exDemMom]

I knew I should have donated to the “Save the Pixies” fund when that cute little girl came knocking on my door asking for money. It’s too late, now.

[Kevmo]

So this is your contribution to a scientific thread — derision? How does that further scientific knowledge? It doesn’t. How is it that the PTBs say that such behavior doesn’t qualify as anti-science?

Here’s the basics: A Freeper logs onto a thread, talks about some scientific aspect of it, and tries to further the knowledge available. A different freeper logs onto the same thread and spreads insults, derision, and stuff that comes out the back end of a bull. Which of these 2 freepers is legitimately pro-science? Which one is Anti-science?

Are you jokers here to deride other Freepers’ comments or to further scientific knowledge?

[Moonman62]

"Forbes magazine," declared New York Times media reporter David Carr in 2009, "has long been a synonym for riches, success and a belief that business, left to its own devices, will create a better world." Amid widespread disbelief, Forbes.com is expressing enthusiastic faith in the world-transforming potential of one such device: the "energy catalyzer," or E-Cat, purported to exploit "low-energy nuclear reactions," or LENRs, as a gigantic energy-production breakthrough.

How misleading. Gibbs is a blogger on Forbes.com. He isn't an employee of Forbes.

[Moonman62]

So this is your contribution to a scientific thread — derision?

There's nothing scientific about hyping a scam.

[RetiredTexasVet]

I guess I could be “more scientific” and enlist Mann, Jones, Hansen and Gore to come to your rescue. They are especially expert at creating conclusions without facts or data to back them up .... sort of like the snake oil salesmen of days long ago.

[103198]

Et tu? NE 78

[Kevmo]

Such skeptopathic scientists like Jones were discredited long ago. For instance, Jones was invited to partake of his famous “cup of tea” at mutiple LENR demonstrations but he declines because he would be easily and quickly proven wrong.

[Kevmo]

oh, you again

Thanks 4 Bumping The Thread T4BTT.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2965392/posts?page=19#19

[Kevmo]

your stalking brings warmth to my heart

Thanks 4 Bumping The Thread T4BTT.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2965392/posts?page=19#19

[Moonman62]

The author of your article, Steven T. Corneliussen, is a media analyst, not a scientist.

[Kevmo]

your stalking brings warmth to my heart

Thanks 4 Bumping The Thread T4BTT.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2965392/posts?page=19#19

[MHGinTN]

Actually, the pixie dust (Helium isotope) is a by product of the reactions. Or so says SRI International based upon the several tests they have running currently.

[Moonman62]

your stalking brings warmth to my heart

Admin Moderator to Kevmo:

But go ahead and play the victim as you pour gasoline on the flames of your own threads.