So if I read your post correctly, this is not free now because it does not exist, it won't be cheap initially as the inventors want to be paid for their invention, it won't be free initially because you will have to buy the machines, it won't be cheap in the future because you will have to buy the palladium ($611 per ounce), silver ($28 per ounce) and deuterium (not commercially produced) before you even start the machine and it won't be free in the future because you will still have to buy the fuel to drive the machine.

AND, in the end after you have paid all this money to get started, every barista, cab driver and hair dresser will be able to make the machine for less than you did. Sounds like a solid business plan to me.

AND it seemingly comes with your guarantee that fuel costs will FALL not RISE, that the inventors will refuse to be further paid for their work and that every person who can buy a screwdriver will be able to build a machine that these researchers have not been able to make in the last 31 years of research spending at least $50 maybe $100 million.

The one good piece of news is that there won't be expensive patent and trademark costs to be paid since the US Patent and Trademark Office has refused to accept applications for the last 12 years based on the progress of the research.

Don't you see? It completely depends on whether it works. Not that it will work or that it might work. Peer review. Control experiments. Documentation. Reproduction of the work. AND a machine has to generate 5KVa of electricity. Not on paper. Not in a lab. For real. Until it works, it is still alchemy; exactly as the Romans attempted 2000 years ago. Don't hold your breath, not because its not finished, but because after 31 years of research they can't even power a light bulb. Its a good thing that cancer research has a better track record.

Let me know when someone (Anyone?) is ready to ship me my free machine loaded with cheap nickel that produces 5KVa of energy for my house which can be located in the baby's room. Until then, any time spent by the public on this subject is a supreme waste of time.

In the face of this avalanche of alchemic quackery, those few logical people left can take heart by trying to read this critical review (remember it is written by a theoretical physicist): http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2011/...uclear-physics-of-why-we/

and a summary of the author's credentials: and the credentials of Rossi, the certified Nuclear Physicist who started the avalancheIt's too bad we cannot get the OP to sit silently and wait for the proof. Free Speech must prevail; for all.

Through an optimist's eye, avenues and possibilities expand.
Through a pessimist's eye, the few that are possible collapses.
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1.You seem to be under the impression that I am bound to some journalism ethics of some kind. Sorry to burst your bubble, but I am not a journalist (I don't get pay or anything of a sort).

2.The amount of rigor that you are asking on this subject, if it is to be asked on all the links that are used in the WCG forum, then only opinions will remain here (no links will pass that standard), especially the science posts.

3.If I will be asking you for money, then You will be in your rights to ask for "a price list (and the parts list in case I have to repair it)". Since I am not, you have no rights to ask for that. I mean you have the right to ask (based on free speech) but I also have the right not to give you anything (based on the same principle).

4. WCG has scientific projects that (at this stage) are not proven by anything (only 2- projects got some results that can be called at best promising) and we can call them all a shot in the dark far more than you can call Cold Fusion (LENR) that. And they are actually asking you for money (your computer electricity bill and computer parts).
Cold Fusion scientists are asking nothing from you now.

5. Last but not least, lets not forget what WCG and Cold Fusion are: Science research projects!
And to quote Einstein:
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

Thank you for proving so clearly what Einstein is trying to say here.

P.S. By your standards, Einstein will be a crazy old fool for more than half of his life and he proved himself only when he build the Bomb (something useful in your view?). By the same standard, you will not give him any money for his 50 years research, before him splitting the atom. Great vision you have there. I hope you are not part of ANY decision board regarding research.

"National Instruments is moving quickly to make a presence in the emerging field of LENR technology — and while they are cautious about making a definitive assessment of the reality of cold fusion, they obviously see a tremendous commercial opportunity here, and they do not seem shy about announcing that they are ready and willing to work with this fledgling industry. As LENR projects expand there is going to be a need for the kinds of hardware and software systems that a company like NI provides, and it will be heartening for researchers and companies to know that there is an experienced and serious company who they can work with for their instrumentation needs."

In addition to this, a new video of Dr. Rob Duncan of the University of Missouri has just been released on the National Instruments community web site. Duncan’s lecture is entitled “The Mystery of Cold Fusion”

http://www.e-catworld.com/2012/07/national-in...-with-many-lenr-projects/

also here:

http://coldfusionnow.org/robert-duncan-discus...-for-nuclear-renaissance/

The conclusion of this link is that more and more established scientific institutions are coming out of the closet with Cold Fusion.
That indicates that very soon we will know more about LENR from the "mainstream science" and as such, OIL will never recover to high prices in the short future.