At 08:25 AM 9/10/2009, Michel Jullian wrote:
The tritium producing SPAWAR experiment I was talking
about was discussed here in January:
http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg29943.html
and in the ensuing discussion, where Horace was already writing (in msg 29965)
"However, it seems to me the CF community needs to home in on one,
just one, highly repeatable, unambiguous, cheap and easy experiment to
demonstrate that CF is real. So far we've not done a good job of
that."
So, let's do just that, shall we?
Thanks. I believe, in spite of the negativity, that we can do it.
And how we do it, I suggest, is through joining
coldfusionproj...@yahoogroups.com, which will be used as part of a
decision-making mechanism that will seek maximum consensus; the way
it will be done will leave actual decisions in the hands of what I
call "caucuses," which will decide to form a company or companies or
other activities. (One person can be a "caucus"! In this case, if the
person has the money or time to invest.) Consensus is powerful, there
is high motivation to find it, because whatever is decided will be
easier with more support, but it is not necessary to find complete
agreement or even a majority; a caucus can decide to go ahead no
matter what the rest of the participants think.
My own decisions will be just that: my own decisions, as advised by
the community. In a sense, I'm setting all this up to get the best
advice, and also to find people with whom to cooperate; I expect that
I'll be putting in some of my own limited resources. Not a lot, for
sure, but something. My time will be the most valuable thing I put
in, I'm sure, because I have only very limited savings, actually
inadequate for my age and responsibilities. But you do what you can
do. Hence I want this to work the first time, if it becomes a money
sink, it will be a disaster for me.
The mailing list will not be allowed to become a free-form debate on,
say, cold fusion theories. But you'll see if you join. It hasn't
really started yet, just a few foundation posts, and there will be more.
The cell cost, in particular, is, contrary to Jed's proclamations,
crucial, even if the instrumentation is more expensive than I expect.
If cells are cheap, one can run many cells individually, and keep
varying one condition at a time. It's real science, all right, but
it's also a toy, it should be fun.
