Reply To: A new way of generating electricity

[Brian H]

vansig wrote: taking attention away from Rossi is actually kinda easy: don’t use nickel plate when you want to study bulk properties of nickel.

but i digress.

lots of people have answered, “i’ll wait for the peer-reviewed articles” and otherwise look away, as though *any* new technology for power generation has about the same credibility as perpetual motion machine. “if this were true, they would already have won the nobel prize” is another easy dismissal.

In direct contravention of Alfred Nobel’s wishes, the Prize is awarded for past achievements already tested, replicated, and accepted. It was intended to go to new, cutting edge, high-potential unproven explorers. The Iron Law Of Bureaucracy took over quickly, tho’. The administrators and paper pushers pushed paper that papered over the goals and purpose of the awards in favour of institutionalizing their admin processes as the only guidelines.