Inteligentry announced this Popper kit, earlier this year, with a
huge fanfare, to allow people to test the technology. Great idea, really.
What happened? http://www.plasmerg.com/kits.html
Currently, the page says that the original kit is not available. Not
to worry, it is being replaced with a Better Kit.
The Better Kit will be available, it's promised, at the CES show, January 8.
Did anyone build and test the kit and show energy generation?
Not reported. Instead, the plasmerg page cited, like many pages
produced by this man, is full of attacks on others, and confident
plans to Defeat Them!
This is beyond "Bad Feeling."
There are a series of entrepreneurs in the "alternative energy" field
who are, even their supporters sometimes freely acknowledge. Crazy as a Loon.
The kit page has a huge amount of detail that is totally irrelevant
to the Kit. He makes the point that the kit isn't an "engine." That's
right. So what is all that information doing there about his engine controller?
This is the situation: if there is no energy produced in a single
cycle in the popper, and that could rather easily be measured, there
is nothing on which to base an engine. After all, an engine like this
is merely a series of "pops". If each one is not producing energy,
the collection of them is not.
That's why most of us involved with cold fusion aren't focusing on
devices that produce massive energy. It's dangerous, for starters,
until the reactions are well understood. A small device that produces
a little power could generally be, in principle, scaled up. But
first, *is there any effect to scale up?*
The Popper Kit was a great idea, if the effect behind it were real,
and the Popper, studied carefully, would show that. We must strongly
suspect that it did *not* show that, and that is the default
explanation for why the kit was cancelled. It makes no business
sense. The kits were being sold at a price that should have more than
covered expenses and a quite decent profit. I've proposed
demonstration kit sales for many technologies.
Some sort of need to improve technology to make it "practical" is
often asserted. It's a total red herring. If one cannot make and sell
a demonstration kit, one does not have a technology that is even
close to ready for commercial application. Kits can be sold for
investigational use. They can come with all kinds of warnings about
risk. They don't even have to be particularly reliable, if this is
disclosed -- and if a kit is cheap, basically, it might well be
disclosed that one must run N of these to have M% chance of seeing results.
Kits are a fast way to share developing technology.
But I don't think Plasmerg/Inteligentry actually has a developing
technology. If they did, their behavior would make no sense.
No, there is a default hypothesis that can't just be set aside here:
John Rohner is nuts.
This is a basic question about the Popper. Was the Popper capable of
demonstrating the effect? If so, it was useful and it makes no sense
to stop selling it. If not, then *why was it sold in the first place?
Did they ever test it? Do they sell stuff without having tested it?
If so, can they be trusted *at all*?
There is comment on Russ, who has lengthy videos where he talks and
talks with little substance. Waste of time to watch them. He's
offered his popper kit for sale. He never tested it. Maybe he
realized how much work would be involved (the kit is not complete,
and, good question: why not? Could that be to actually discourage
testing? An incomplete kit may sit and gather dust for a long time,
maybe forever.)
(I write and write, and sometimes people think it's without
substance! While I don't think so, I'd never do this with a video,
because it takes a lot of time to view a video, and my target
audience for what I write can scan a post of mine in minutes or less.
Videos can be great, but chatty videos can be *awful* unless one is
personally enamoured of a speaker.)
