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- From: Jed Rothwell <72240.1256@compuserve.com>
- Subject: I have a little list...
- Message-ID: <920723020943_72240.1256_EHL23-2@CompuServe.COM>
- Sender: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller)
- Reply-To: Jed Rothwell <72240.1256@compuserve.com>
- Organization: Sci.physics.fusion/Mail Gateway
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 02:47:51 GMT
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- Todd Green has an interesting list of people:
-
- "Oriani, Wadsworth, Scott, Huggins, Appleby, Landau, Schoessow and Hutchinson
- all claimed heat in 1989 but how many of those are still going strong now?
- Answer: none."
-
- Hmmm. I have not heard of Wadsworth, Landau or Hutchinson; they are not in
- my computer. Of the others, I just talked to Oriani, and I have been in
- touch with Huggins and Abbleby, but I don't think they are in the CF
- business any more. Schoessow is still going strong. To my knowledge, none of
- these people has retracted. The claims of Oriani, Huggins and Appleby seem
- solid to me, I don't know anything about Schoessow.
-
- You understand of course, that with a database of hundreds of scientists
- working in, or related to CF, I cannot check them, or judge them. No doubt
- there are some flakes in there, but I just take what they tell me at face
- value. This is a mailing list, not an FBI check. Many people in the list are
- working on CF but not doing experiments, like the theoreticians, and the
- people at Rockwell who analyze other people's cathodes.
-
- I am quite sure there at least 100 others in Japanese corporations who I have
- never hear from. For example, I only have 3 names from Technova, and no
- address in France, where there must be at least five or ten people hard at
- work. I have only two or three in China, but the head of the program there
- told me they have launched a "large project." Goodness knows how many people
- that might mean. I have only one or two names in Russia.
-
- It would be very good for this field if I had the money to mail out a survey
- to all of the people on my list, asking what results they have achieved
- lately. DB's bibliography is great help, but it takes many months for papers
- to appear, and a paper may not lay out the facts you want for a database. It
- would be good if I could publish such a database.
-
- "I heard rumors that [McKubre] can get up to 250%, but is this true?"
-
- Your guess is as good as mine. I have heard that rumor, and several others.
- I do not know the truth. If I did, I would have to say, "sorry, I can't
- answer." I talk so much that it may seem strange, but I keep secrets when I
- am told to. People who don't keep secrets never hear anything more! It is
- the oldest rule of journalism. An old journalist trick failed to elicit the
- information you are after. Bockris and I fed Mike two enormous Texas Style
- meals and several bottles of first class Champaign -- I lost track of how
- many -- and Mike never even blinked! Not one word! By the way, Bockris paid
- (which is journalistic trick # 2: somebody else pays.)
-
- "If only there were a few more good experiments like this one... [McKubre's]"
-
- Amen. I hope he really is back to work, and Godspeed to him.
-
- - Jed
-
-