What ever happend to the Patterson cell?
Date: Saturday, February 07, 2004 @ 20:07:34 UTC
Topic: Devices
Eric Krieg writes: I tried to contact these people years ago when Malloves "Infinite Energy Magazine" was anticipating them being part of the immiment inevitable mainstreaming of cold fusion. I pretty much offered those people, "hey, let me check out a cell as an independent investigator and I will publish my results openly".
After a little back and forth dialog, they pretty much rebuffed my offer to possibly become a converted skeptic with the response, "we want people to think it's impossible so we don't have competition". I thought it was a good dodge, more creative than Newman's or Lee's excuses to evade independent confirmation. But basically, like most FE claims they did a slow fade out in the world of uncritical FE reporting while some new exciting claimant was getting credulous free publicity. I got the impression that Patterson had done real things in his early years, wasn't a complete nut, but he was no longer running on all cylinders and surronded himself with people who would nod yes on queue. I wish I had time to update my list with all these many different FE claimants who faded away. Naturally the prime time TV program that gave Patterson free publicity would never look back and let people know it died. There are probably a few people stilll believing in Patterson cells thinking they will soon unlock the secret. But that is just my jaded opinion.
Eric Krieg
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