2012: The Year of Cold Fusion?

I don't think cold fusion and/or LENR will succeed in 2012.

Wow, really goin out on a limb there....lol

How appropriate that this E-CAT device is being demonstrated at the University of Bologna...chuckle

I always find that these people, and there have been many over the years, that make these wild claims of energy breakthroughs, are always working in seclusion, and are very secretive about the device, refusing for some time to even let anybody look at the device in question, who has some scientific knowledge...It's as if they know that their moment in the sun is going to be short, and they try to stretch it out as long as possible...While on the other hand, legitimate leaps forward are always small and incremental and with many minds working together in collaboration...

"2012: The Year of Cold Fusion?"

They say that every year.

First, I would like to say that this article starts off with a lot of misunderstandings.

1. The Higgs Boson experiment was not a failure, but I call it a smashing success. The degree of certainty is better than 99% (compare that with Cold Fusion, which is 0%). In order to be called an official discovery we need to make that 99.99%. I think that will happen soon enough. Meanwhile quit your quibbling and let the team do their work.

2. A new discovery just last week found that HIV treatment with antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) can actually prevent transmission of the virus from an infected person to others. That is not a trivial finding. Preventing its spread is an important mechanism to shutting down the cycle of infection in new victims.

As far as cancer is concerned, researchers at Dublin's Trinity College have made a finding using vaccines that show promise, not preventing cancer, but actually training the body's immune system to rid itself of cancer. Similar studies in 2011 have shown promise with other forms of cancer. Again, this is not a trivial thing, but potentially could be a mechanism that will obsolete chemotherapy and other standard methods. Read more: http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Trinity-College-research-team-makes-breakthrough-with-cancer-vaccine-135916618.html#ixzz1iGUVCdPG

Lastly, E-Cat is not a scientific discovery by any stretch of the imagination. The so called "inventors" refuse to share their findings and discoveries with the rest of the scientific world.

That is not science, but pathological mumbo jumbo or snake oil in a beaker.

Quoted from the article, "as I pointed out at some length in the first columns, should Rossi's E-Cat work as claimed, it will transform the world making oil..."

To quote a famous general from the annals of history, "if!" Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi are following in the exact same footsteps as Pons and Fleischmann with their total disregard of established scientific methods. They refuse to share their data and are unable to publish in scholarly journals. Again, this is not science.

The author wrote, "If the whole thing is a fraud it's going to be one of the greatest in modern times."

Sorry, it will simply be a repeat of 1989 and as we already know, reruns are never as exciting as the first showing. However, it will prove once again that for those that fail to heed it, history will repeat itself.

Well I can clearly see why Mark Gibbs is never going to win a Pulitzer prize.

The Large Hadron Collider has, so far, failed to find evidence of the Higgs Boson (boo!)

Well Mr. Gibbs, what do you call "LHC: Higgs Boson 'may have been glimpsed" I admit that this is not proof, nor definitive evidence, nor is it sufficient time to sort through this report. However this is evidence of the Higgs Boson. (Nyah Nyah Nee Nya Ya)

Oh, I'm sorry. You were taking the linguistic liberty of having a Masters of Business Adminstration degree to choose any polysyllabic word that approximates your intentions. In your article you take "evidence" to mean peer reviewed verification because this is Science with a capital "S". You remember from your High School days that Science is always properly peer reviewed and verified.

Speaking of peer review, why on earth would you promote a claim about E-Cat changing the energy market. Unlike the work done at the Large Hadron Collider, the team hustling E-Cat have only provided unreviewed parlor demonstrations to support their claims. Oh thats right, because if E-Cat is actually true the energy market will dramatically change.

Have you ever heard of Samantha Stevens? She had a television show in the 60's. With a wiggle of her nose, this housewife could produce anything she wanted at her fingertips. Now if this was real it could dramatically change the manufacturing industry, let alone shipping.

Yeah, it's amazing how these "scientists" seem to behave just like Dickens and Fenster, or The Three Stooges, or Pons and Fleischman. And somehow no one can keep track of an alleged 400kw of heat! What a joke! (Perhaps more self-delusion than fraud, but hard to tell.)