RE: [Vo]:Hello? Anyone home?

2012-01-13 Thread Jones Beene
Yes, we're home. Yawn. Why should it be a surprise, if the answer is no? Others have reported excellent results, maybe not 100% but very good - and researchers in major labs or Universities took no notice. After all, they are sooo busy, busy, busy that they cannot look-up from figuring out how to

Re: [Vo]:Hello? Anyone home?

2012-01-13 Thread James Bowery
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Yes, we're home. Yawn. Why should it be a surprise, if the answer is no? Because there do exist some actual scientists.

RE: [Vo]:Hello? Anyone home?

2012-01-13 Thread Jones Beene
Yes, but actual scientists need decent funding to do this kind of work. BTW, there is a typo in previous post: should be Ni-H - as in why would they replicate Pd-D which has so little chance of commercialization, due to the thousand-fold higher cost of the reactants, instead of Ni-H which does

Re: [Vo]:Hello? Anyone home?

2012-01-13 Thread James Bowery
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Yes, but actual scientists need decent funding to do this kind of work. ... As mentioned in previous postings, palladium has hit $1000/ounce at times $100 for one foot of 1mm diameter palladium wire

Re: [Vo]:Hello? Anyone home?

2012-01-13 Thread Jed Rothwell
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: $100 for one foot of 1mm diameter palladium wire http://www.bonanza.com/listings/1-FOOT-PALLADIUM-950-ROUND-WIRE-HH-18-GAUGE-JEWELRY/23681238 This is enough to replicate Preparata's experiment. Hardly a bank-buster. It is all the other stuff that

Re: [Vo]:Hello? Anyone home?

2012-01-13 Thread James Bowery
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: $100 for one foot of 1mm diameter palladium wire http://www.bonanza.com/listings/1-FOOT-PALLADIUM-950-ROUND-WIRE-HH-18-GAUGE-JEWELRY/23681238 This is enough to replicate

Re: [Vo]:Hello? Anyone home?

2012-01-13 Thread James Bowery
BTW: The following should not be taken to mean that I believe most actual scientists are convinced that pursuit of replication of the Fleischmann Pons Effect is a moot point. I was merely trying to avert an irrelevant argument with Jones. On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:08 PM, James Bowery

Re: [Vo]:Hello? Anyone home?

2012-01-13 Thread Terry Blanton
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: As mentioned in previous postings, palladium has hit $1000/ounce at times in recent history, and nickel is in the range of $1/ounce. The huge cost disparity between D and H is even greater. Today Pd bid $1481 ask $1489