236) Promises promises

Ludwik Kowalski (7/9/05)
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ, 07043

The iESiUSA website has an item that I do not remember seeing several days ago. It is a one-year-old paper entitled “Alternative energies are looking good again.” The author, Michael Kanellos, is a writer. Here is the first sentence: “Companies promoting solar power and other alternative-energy concepts are rapidly attracting venture funding, research grants and, just as important, the interest of many of the tech industry's deep thinkers and influential figures.” This is followed by comments on the oil crisis, terrorism and “Enron-related” blackouts in California. Then I see a section about enormous profits of companies that benefited from investments in new technology fields.

Contrary to my expectation, the article turned out to be devoted to technologies of photovoltaic cells; I expected it to shed some light on the iESiUSA technology. That is why I am disappointed. When will we hear from people who witnessed the June, 2005 demonstration in Edmonton? According to the Internet rumors, Martin Fleischmann was only one of several qualified witnesses. When will the revolutionary devices be described on the company’s website? When will company scientists share with us what they understand? The longer I wait the more pessimistic I become about the three iESiUSA promises.