Peter Heckert <[email protected]> wrote: He must do this if he wants to do a scientific level proof of evidency. >
He has said countless times that he does not care what scientists think. He is only interested in what his customers think. That is a perfectly valid set of standards. Many businessmen think that scientists are a bunch of ivory tower academics who do not understand the real world. > If he wants public or political support he must do this. > If he sells enough reactors the public and politicians will surely support him! The public does not care about scientific standards at all. > > If he does not want this, then can his strange hobby in privacy and do > what he want, I dont care which reasons he has for this. > It is absurd to call this a hobby. It is a business. He just sold a reactor for $2 million. He probably has orders for several more at that price. His reasons are obvious. He wants to make money. Who wouldn't?!? My only objection is this: I think he should do things my way, because he would make a lot more money a lot sooner. I told him that. He ignored me. He has every right to ignore me. > Its his time and I prefer to practise piano than studying these crappy > experiments. > It is childish to denigrate him this way. You sound like one of these elitists who denigrate hard work and capitalism. > Anyway he has not delivered what he promised. > Oh yes he did! He promised a 1 MW reactor. 470 kW is so close, the difference does not matter. Heck, the thing apparently works with no input. That's much better than what he promised. If Rossi had the outward appearance and smooth delivery of a scientist from central casting, such as Mike McKubre, * everyone would believe him and he would win the Nobel Prize next year. His problem is mainly public relations and poor presentation. He does not bother to spend a half-hour straightening up his experiment or placing the thermocouples in a way that inspires confidence, or in a way that can be independently checked. Arata is the same way. Everyone believes him because he has a hundred patents and metals from the Emperors past and present and a building named in his honor on the campus. Not because he gives a good presentation or writes good papers. His tests are nowhere near as convincing as Rossi's. Few experiments in the history of cold fusion have been as irrefutably convincing as Rossi's, especially the October 6 test. I have not seen a single valid objection raised to it here. Just a lot of silly hot-air. Lots of irrelevant bullshit about the instruments. The instruments have no connection to the first principal proof. They were a distraction. It is better to ignore them. > He only sells 1 MW plants, anybody who is interested can buy them I dont > care. > You can bet that many important and influential people care! They care way more about 1 MW reactors than a body of 3,000 papers about cold fusion. If Rossi sells 10 more reactors, he will convince more people than all of the other cold fusion researchers in history. He will single-handedly overcome the political resistance to this field. I wish you would use a different strategy but I'm sure this strategy will work. It does have merit. He is no fool. - Jed * This is not to suggest that Mike McKubre does not deserve fulsome praise.
