ZPEnergy.com - LENR-CANR passes 450,000

In the Vortex group Jed Rothwell writes: We passed 450,000 download last week. Ho-hum. I have become blase. It does not seem to be having any effect on public opinion, so I see no reason to get excited. Perhaps it is having an unseen, subterranean effect, like the colony of ants gradually eating away at a gigantic tree.

I noted a slight shift in Park's latest pronouncement: "Cold fusion, of course, still has believers, but not much confirmation." In the past he would have said something like "zero confirmation." Maybe he feels the ants nibbling away at his feet. I wonder if, perhaps, every time he writes something like that he gets a barrage of mail from people who have read LENR-CANR.org, and he is getting tired of being told there is evidence. He must be getting nervous about Taleyarken and sonofusion, by now. His attack against Taleyarken seems unusually shrill, even for him. I detect a slight touch of hysteria, or panic.

I believe that Park has done the field of cold fusion a great service, and if he did not exist we would have to invent him. His opposition has probably not slowed things down any more than they would have been slowed anyway, given the widespread antipathy toward cold fusion. Besides, Park opposes nearly everything. If he had influence and he could actually stop research, progress everywhere would have ground to halt years ago. Park is a perfect foil; he puts the opposition to CF in the worst possible light. As Hamlet said:

I'll be your foil, Laertes. In mine ignorance
Your skill shall, like a star i' th' darkest night,
Stick fiery off indeed.

- Jed