Sifferkol, a Swedish blogger propose an interesting interpretation of recent charge of the Swedish public Radio against E-cat and cold fusion.
The author judge that this attack is launched by Ulrika Björksten (the "boss" of the program), who use her power in that media to fight this disruptive change, this clean energy, that endanger current green business agenda.
As not understanding Swedish, nor living in Sweden, unlike the author, I cannot judge of the personality, the past behaviors, the activism, the body language, nor the interest of Ulrika Björksten.
However as an observer of french politics, of European politics, of Global dynamics around research, green business, NGO, politics, I have warned people of that profile of "Misguided Environmentalist". We should prepare to fight people who in the name of clean planet will fight LENR, not because it is dirty, but because it is fighting their old vision of green energy, of Malthusian solutions.
The physicists who opposed violently the chemistry finding of Fleischmann&Pons were honest scientists who have fallen in love with their two-body free-space model of nuclear physics, and it's comfortable road to academic recognition and peer-satisfaction.
Many LENR theorist slowed LENR development, and brought avoidable ridicule to LENR by falling in love with their pet theory.
The next rank of opposition will be environmental activists who have fallen in love with green energies and Malthusians scarcity. The battle will be fierce since they control media and moral authority. They will defend their business share, their vote share, and finally their public recognition.
I'm much less afraid of the barbarian herd of business incumbent, who will scatter at the first hope to make more money than their neighbor by endorsing LENR.
As says Nassim Nicholas Taleb : " I trust those hungry for dollars a thousand times more than those hungry for honors and rank. "
QuoteDisplay MoreAn Enemy of LENR and Clean Energy – the Misguided Environmentalist…
It seems like a contradiction. But then, maybe not. It’s only a contradiction if using the premiss that the environmentalists only cares about the environment. Surprise! The do not. As everyone else they care about themselves, their careers, their prestige and political power. Sometimes even money. Knowing this makes it easier to understand their opposition against cheap clean energy.
Because, really clean and cheap energy would actually ruin everything for them (except the actual environment part of course). Their voices would be worth zero zip nil…null.
Recently this has become extremely evident.
Of course I’m thinking about the anti LENR crusade performed by Swedish public radio and their head of science; Ulrika Björksten.
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My conclusions are obvious. Ulrika Björksten is pragmatic and likes to use the media in her crusade for her beliefs. She interpretes journalistic ethics on the fly and gives herself the right to ignore facts when they do not suit her and uses the ”special interest” card as it pleases her. All available dirty tools are used when covering the Rossi story from a completely non-factual ad-hominem side and she does it in the name of some sort of common good, representing her political interests (misguided environmental).
Maybe she’s only a ”nyttig (useful) idiot”, as we call it in Sweden, or maybe she has a plan. I don’t know which one is the worst….