What is it about this sector that attracts people, sans the Planet Rossi SPs, with little or no ability to process reality?
Mainly this is caused by wishful thinking and the desire to save the planet from the energy crisis and global warming. It is also caused by people who want to make a lot of money selling cold fusion energy. And, as I said, this is characteristic of all new science. New science, as well as new fields of technology, art, politics and so on tend to attract strange people.