Cold Fusion Now : New Podcast with Alan Smith interview by Ruby carat

^ Well worth a listen. Sounds like Lewan's conference will be interesting.

NB, Alan you should have had a crack, I think you'd be surprised at how tolerant deevee can be of lifestyle choices.

Good point. Norman Pilcher and all that...

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Before long, there's so much secrecy no one can truly know what's going on, who has what, and who is telling the truth.

I respectfully disagree. Only a small minority of people regularly resort to straight-up lies and misdirection. Many simply keep quiet and keep a low profile if they have a secret to keep. Even when trade secrets are at stake, I can only assume that it is not normal behavior to tell bold lies to people, nor should it be.

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Today, morality is more flexible than ever before

Are you sure about that? Have you read history? I suggest you look at morality in ancient Rome, or Edo period Japan, or in the Southern U.S. states before the Civil War. I expect you will find that people in other times were not angels. Their morality was flexible. It was no better than ours, and sometimes worse.

People often imagine that things are going to hell in a handbasket, morality as we have known it is kaput, and people have never been worse than they are now. People said that 100 years ago in 1918 when WWI was finally coming to an end, and in 1860, and in all other eras. In 1943, Philip Wiley wrote a best-selling book titled "Generation of Vipers" claiming that U.S. morality was atrocious, and we might lose the war because we were such moral delinquents. Things had never been worse. Nowadays, people say that was "the greatest generation." So, which is it? My parents and the other adults I knew growing were part of that generation. In my opinion, they were no better or worse than the people before them or the ones who came after.

In my case, many of the adults I knew were Japanese WWII vets. I don't know if that qualifies them for Greatest Generation status, but I do know they were no better or worse than the Americans who fought against them.

That generation did have a rendezvous with destiny, as FDR put it, and they accomplished remarkable things, such as flying Zero fighter airplanes into ships.

See:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06W56TMP4

https://www.amazon.com/Greates…okaw-ebook/dp/B000FC1IE0/

The thought of deception blocks all paths to the truth that what you need is not the same as what we wont. The lie starts within all of us. so a true reveal is automaticlly a lie.

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I have gotten familiar with the LENR story, but I have not a clue as to the core reasons for this prevalent secrecy...And in saying that, I mean everyone but Rossi. I suspect it has to do with lots of things (not just greed), but only an insider IMO could adequately explain it all.

The reason is simple. You cannot get a patent for cold fusion. The Patent Office rejects all patents out of hand, without review. That policy was put in place soon after cold fusion was announced. See:

http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/CageKmemorandum.pdf

Cold fusion is so important that if it works, only a patent will protect the discoverer's intellectual property. Other methods such as trade secrets will not work. So, the people funding cold fusion have no choice but to try to keep it secret until they can persuade the Patent Office to allow patents.

A few patents have gotten through by various loopholes.

http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/FrenchDpatentsand.pdf

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I'd say the majority of people are willing to lie when the stakes are high and they have something to lose.

There are no "stakes" here. In the context of cold fusion, lies are useless. You can lie until the cows come home, but it will not bring in a single dollar for a cold fusion discovery.

Rossi's lies will not help him secure intellectual property. The only way he can do that is to get a patent. A patent cannot include any lies. A PHOSITA has to be able to replicate from the patent. There is no way Rossi can hide a valid technology by lying, dissembling, giving false leads, or by any other means. He can only do that by being 100% honest in a patent application -- because without 100% honesty the patent will be overturned.

The only thing Rossi can accomplish with his lies and other machinations is to steal money by defrauding investors. His lies can have no other purpose but that.

Secrecy may be useful in cold fusion, but lying is not. In other R&D, such as developing a self-driving car, there are trade secrets and experts you can poach from other companies. In that situation, lying, exaggerating, or putting out false leads to confuse the competition and send them off on a wild goose chase may serve a useful purpose. IBM used to play such games with consummate skill. But such business strategies are useless in cold fusion.

Rossi's US patent can be invalidated based on his documented fabrications.

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Rossi's US patent can be invalidated based on his documented fabrications.

And the same for his trademark cat and ball, which in the USPTO trademark application included an image of a domestic heater (one of the small modules in place in the Red Container, Doral), supposedly "climatizing" the laboratory at the 'point of sale'.

The demo the Alan Smith describes and intends to demonstrate involving a glow discharge though a tube of low pressure gas that activates a piece of metal foil is interesting.

IMHO, the foil is producing muons. It is known that muons pass through light elements without reacting to any great degree. But muons react vigorously with heavy elements because of the high nuclear density of these heavy elements. The reaction cross section of muons with heavy elements like lead is about a million times greater than that with hydrogen. The muons catalyze fusion and fission on the heavy elements which results in the production of protons, neutrons and neutral atomic fragments.

Holmlid uses copper as a way to convert muons to radiation that is more detectable by radiation counters. This has something to do with copper's high surface conductivity.

The high voltage discharge produces surface phasmon polaritons that will form a condensate on the surface of the metal foil and convert the energy content of the high voltage glow discharge into muons.

This muon hypothesis can be verified through the use of a cload chamber. The chamber will produce tracks that are capable of showing the charge of the particles produced by the foil and their energies.

With all the experience in a wide array of scientific methods, operation of a cload chamber should be well within Alan's capabilities.

The foil that produces strange radiation in the Smith "Muon" demo should be given to MFMP for analysis for transmutation.