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Re:Paper on Ni-H Fusion by Focardi by romaniv on Monday October 31, 2011 @09:14AM (#3177244)
Personally, I no longer think "is this true?" when reading about stuff like this. I know that the odds are in favor of this being another fake technology. What I do think about is whether there is any mechanism for real inventions to become acknowledged in this kind of environment. Would Nikola Tesla be considered a fake these days? Did he have good documentation for his devices? How did his public demonstrations go?
Re:Paper on Ni-H Fusion by Focardi by dhimes on Monday October 31, 2011 @09:29AM (#3177275)
Initially Tesla would be viewed with skepticism. But his work with AC was reproducible. His anti-gravity experiments are not accepted.

An interesting contemporary thread currently is the inflationary expansion of the universe that was reported a couple of years back (http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/334907/title/Cosm...). It was a remarkably unsettling find, yet seems to be confirmed other teams. If it's not true we will learn something truly fundamental (like h-bar isn't really constant or something).

Re:Paper on Ni-H Fusion by Focardi by aidenn0 on Monday October 31, 2011 @09:03PM (#3179999)
Well, Rossi could very easily be acknowledged by just giving a few grand and a prototype to some independent lab for testing. He hasn't done this, therefore I feel fine dismissing this as a fake.