ahbwramc comments on Cold fusion: real after all? - Less Wrong

-3 Post author: ahbwramc 17 April 2013 07:27PM

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Comment author: ahbwramc 17 April 2013 08:12:02PM 0 points [-]

I honestly don't know what to think of Rossi. He could be genuine, he could just be a scam artist. Certainly he's exhibited behaviour in the past that I would associate with scam artists - continually promising definitive proof is "just around the corner", and then not delivering. On the other hand, if cold fusion is really real, it obviously raises the probability that he's genuine.

Comment author: CarlShulman 17 April 2013 09:22:20PM *  22 points [-]

His wikipedia page shows THREE successive fringe science companies promising miracle energy breakthroughs in completely separate areas of technology, contra accepted science: waste-to-oil, super-thermoelectricity, and now cold fusion. The previous companies failed to produce anything, and the first one brought criminal charges.

Why would you be agnostic about the guy?

Comment author: externalmonologue 18 April 2013 09:12:16PM 2 points [-]

scam artist for sure, that one is easy.