On 01/17/2011 12:52 PM, Jones Beene wrote: > > Stephen - There are a few other details in the "big picture" that are > not common knowledge, but should be mentioned. This is not really a > breakthrough in one sense, but that all depends on how "public" you > think the demo is/was. After all, it did show up on the internet. Does > that make you believe it was really an open demo? >
That's a semantic question, and it depends on what you mean by "open". But in any case a demo (of any sort) by a single researcher proves nothing, unless you are convinced of that researcher's honesty. 10 kW output is too large to be an error. Either it's real or it's faked. If Ed Storms demonstrated a 10 kW reactor, it would be Game Over and Our Side Won, because I'm sure he would never fake anything. If David Copperfield demonstrated a 10 kW reactor I would be convinced it was a fake, and I'd be extremely amused that I couldn't see how he'd done it.
