Why revisit cold fusion?

Audience numbers are way down.  Look, I've just about given up on getting a big audience for this blog.  So, the audience can go to zero for all I care.  I don't write in order to build an audience.  I write for whatever interests me.

Cold fusion interests me now.  But, it isn't unique for me.  I'm interested in all energy sources.  The key thing here to me is that no energy source should be frowned upon.  Or favored especially over another.  What should count is its effectiveness.  That is, does it supply the necessary energy for a reasonable price?  Is it reliable?

I'm critical of ITER because it is receiving favorable treatment.  It is getting that favor on the presumable grounds of being safer and potentially more abundant.  But you can't run ITER without tritium and that has to be made because it doesn't exist in nature.  Not to mention that tritium is dangerous stuff.  Yet, our government has sponsored ITER even though it doesn't work and won't sponsor molten-salt reactors even though it does work ( in laboratory ).  That ought to strike people as odd, but for some strange reason, people won't question what the government does and doesn't do.  It is an almost childlike quality that is not usually found elsewhere.  One may ask the question--- what gives?

The thing that comes to mind immediately is corruption.  That is, there's money at stake, and the politicians are on the take.  Therefore, anything that won't work isn't a threat to special interests.  It can get plenty of taxpayer money, and no objections from "you know who".  But anything that does work is definitely a threat, and that has to be suppressed at all costs.  Follow the money.  That's why you can't count on politicians to solve any problems.  Chances are, there's money to made in causing problems, not in fixing them.  Wars or the threat of wars makes the military necessary, don't you know.  It isn't only wars, but any government program exists only to enrich those who advocate for it.  This is against the interests of everybody else.  For someone who isn't a totally clueless chucklehead who depends upon the msm to supposedly give them the news, this isn't a surprise at all.

I don't know if Rossi has anything real or not.  It just seems to me that the cold fusion folks are chasing up the wrong tree.  You shouldn't look to the establishment for validation.  You should just develop a product for sale and then sell it.  Once it's available to the public, the science can then scramble to figure out how the gizmo works.  Instead, it seems that all the cold fusion people are doing is arguing with an establishment that will never give them recognition.  The establishment should have to deal with a fait accompli, then adjust itself to the new realities.  But that reality has to exist.  If Rossi doesn't have anything, their skepticism will have been validated.  If Rossi does have something, but is allowing them to dictate to him, then shame on him.  For that wasn't necessary.

I don't know which it is, but I'd like to see it if it does exist.  If somebody has got something, they should be producing a product for sale.  Otherwise, how do you know?

Seems to me that an energy source should be able to produce hydrogen.  Hydrogen would be a product that could be sold just about anywhere as long as you have a cheap energy source and water.

Put up or shut up.  If you've got something, then make hydrogen and sell it.  There exists a market for it.