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Opinion Piece
Future of Cold Fusion After the Passing of Eugene
Mallove
Injunction to carry on with more determination.
by Tim Ventura
http://www.americanantigravity.com
Perhaps the next question, in light of recent events, is to ask "where
exactly are we at?". No doubt that Eugene was making some very unique
headway into Cold Fusion and LENR research, and his loss will be profound, but
one thing that I would like to ask is that we also begin to look at where he was
going and how we can continue his legacy to bring these technologies forward
into the light.
Cold Fusion is one of many new technologies that I've either read up on or
directly done research into. A number of these areas are almost
"Phantoms", in that they always appear to be a year-away from
commercial development, but the more that you work on them to less tangible they
appear. Antigravity is certainly in this arena -- after 12 years of research,
including 2 years of basically calling up everybody with any ideas on the phone,
I can honestly say that I know less about this than I did starting out.
I could write a book about public perception of alternative science, but its
faster to summarize the theme by stating "they care less than we thought
they did". Either our efforts are a mere novelty, or instead the public
feels impotent to help and simply figures that "sombody else is working on
it". In either case, that's bad news for this type of research (funded out
of pocket with virtually no support from mainstream science).
Mallove was a giant in this field, because he brought credibility to research
that would otherwise be marginalized. We need to continue to provide
credibility, and the primary way to achieve this is to first stop the infighting
that this community is so notorious for, and then find ways to present a unified
front for the public to put their interest into.
We've achieved a lot of the preliminary goals that have eluded researchers in
this area in the past -- we've found lots of potential technologies, and
attained publicity (or at least notoriety) in the public mind. The question now
is where to go from here? Gene Mallove had an idea on this, and he will be
missed by us all. However, maybe this is an opportunity to come together and
become organized in our efforts, rather than letting fear and paranoia take
hold.
The above was originally composed and published
on May 16, 2004.
Contact
- Tim Ventura <tventura6 [at] comcast.net >
See also
Posted by SDA
May 22, 2004
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