Jed Rothwells book: Cold Fusion and the Future

[drew]

I don't think that this link has been posted on here!

Cold Fusion and the Future by Jed Rothwell

A non-technical, light and entertaining read! probably ages 13+ will follow. :P :P

[AlainCo]

A great book to have a first vision of future with LENR, and not only LENR.

[AlainCo]

Here is how Jed Rothwell in his latest ICCF17 paper "The Future May be Better than You Think", present that book:

The prospects for revolutionary technology based on cold fusion are described in my book, Cold
Fusion and the Future. The book is a compilation of essays I wrote, many co-authored by
Eugene Mallove. It is the result of conversations I had with many people especially Mallove, Arthur
C. Clarke and Martin Fleischmann. I should also give credit to Edmund Storms, John O’M. Bockris,
David Nagel, Adm. Sir Anthony Griffin, Tom Passel, Tadahiko Mizuno, Christopher Tinsley and
others listed in the footnotes. Many of these ideas came from Arthur Clarke's masterpiece, Profiles
of the Future. In the final edition of 1999, Clarke added several pages about cold fusion.

[AlainCo]

Jed have written asmall review of some vision of the future, that even without cold fusion are enlighening.

there are some vision of Arthur C Clarke, and many interesting ideas...

[AlainCo]

Jed just recently made a sad comment about predicting future:

http://www.polratings.com/predictions
Currently they're all IT predictions but anyone care to predict what will happen in CF in 2013? If you have an insight, fire away: http://www.polratings.com/prediction...on-submission/

The IT predictions are interesting!

I have sworn off trying to predict the future of cold fusion because it determined by politics, not technology. If it was technology we could spot a trend or extrapolate from what has happened. But the progress of cold fusion -- or likely lack of progress -- depends entirely on emotions. To be blunt, it is stymied by fanatics who oppose science and academic freedom.

People repeatedly set up carefully devised funding with government agencies and private donors. Everything is lined up. Approvals are given. Then, at the last minute, Robert Park or one his crowd hears about it, raises a stink, threatens people's careers, pulls strings, and the whole project goes down the tubes. Or the meeting is cancelled, or the book is not printed. Every few months I hear about that kind of thing. As long as we face this kind of opposition there is not likely to be much funding or progress. It is a miracle the conference at U. Missouri is on track, and their research is still funded.



Progress also depends to some extent on people such as Rossi, who are, shall we say, unpredictable. Self centered. Uncooperative. Prone to hurting their own interests.