tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1893724621360177695.post6978235787163226648..comments2023-03-30T16:45:53.919-05:00Comments on The "C" Word - that's chemistry of course: Burst BubblesAylwin Forbeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16051125260705797284noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1893724621360177695.post-59432271456388705312007-04-06T21:52:00.000-05:002007-04-06T21:52:00.000-05:00This response to Steven. I had not noticed your p...This response to Steven. I had not noticed your previous comment before I had weighed in again on D2Fusion. Returning to the Amoco days, yes we were aware of Lautzenhiser, but we never met with him or discussed the experiments. As I remember, he was not, at that time anyway, an electrochemist, and we were rather puzzled by his intense interest in the phenomenon, particularly since that location was not a research laboratory. His work was at the beginning very under cover.<BR/><BR/>I imagine my tone must come across as overwhelmingly skeptical, but at the beginning I think we tried extremely hard to be open-minded. There was an early meeting with a gang of top Amoco research people and management who were generally hostile. It was quite difficult to defend the position of treating things on their apparent merit.<BR/><BR/>I invited a former group member from Oxford, Stephen Crouch Baker, who was then or had recently been with Huggins' group in Stanford. He gave a quite convincing talk on the energy output from cells at Amoco. I lost touch with him, but I think he went to SRI, and there was some report of an explosion with a fatality.<BR/><BR/>I cannot deny that there are tantalizing aspects to the saga of cold fusion. Nonetheless, even if everything occurs as claimed, will there, can there, be anything in it beyond fascination?Aylwin Forbeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16051125260705797284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1893724621360177695.post-38622262498986361342007-04-05T22:59:00.000-05:002007-04-05T22:59:00.000-05:00Hi Aylwin,If you are going to critique D2Fusion an...Hi Aylwin,<BR/><BR/>If you are going to critique D2Fusion and Russ George, go for it. Why beat around the bush?<BR/><BR/>For example, see the five-part New Energy Times investigation here:<BR/>http://www.newenergytimes.com/news/2006/NET16.htm#d21Steven Krivithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08705532236480486371noreply@blogger.com