On Oct 27, 2009, at 2:25 AM, Michel Jullian wrote:
2009/10/26 Horace Heffner <hheff...@mtaonline.net>:
...
> ...you are willing to sell
> something that not even the fringe physics/chemistry population
constituting
> experts in the CF field agree to as demonstrative....This could
of course, at
> minimum, be damaging to the field.
> ...
> What is missing is a single utterly
> convincing experiment that is readily replicated. No such
experiment yet
> exists as far as I know, even as accepted by the community.
So you're effectively saying that selling ANY Cold Fusion demo kit
today would be damaging to the field, right? I don't see why, as
long as it is not claimed that the kits constitute a proof of CF
reality.
There is no convincing single experiment that demonstrates cold
fusion. Producing a kit that supposedly does demonstrate CF is
therefore is a matter of questionable ethics. Doing so at a profit
casts an ugly shadow on the effort at best. Producing a kit that
uses a bad protocol when other simple protocols (e.g. SPAWAR's
current protocol) are available is nonsensical. A questionable
protocol simply invites derision.
If there were a convincing single cheap experiment I'd want to see at
least 1,000 talented science students graduating from high school
every year having personally witnessed cold fusion. That's worth
attempting on a non-profit basis. It think 10,000 is even a
reasonable goal.
It strikes me, at this point in the evolution of the field, as
nonsensical and even a poor business decision to sell a kit that
produces a single demonstration experiment. It is not even a good
approach to a science fair project to use a cookbook recipe kit.
What would make much more sense is to provide enough of a variety of
things so that the purchaser can cook up his own experiments, to
provide an erector set for electrochemical experiments. For
example, plastic cells with flat electrode size holes machined or in
the sides (so as to be able to keep the particle detection outside
the cell by applying electrode structures to the hole) might be sold
in fairly large quantities. An erector set is more useful than a
one-time kit. Something more along the lines of Bob Lazar's
operation might make sense, but selling materials, equipment, and
documentation geared for CF work.
Something that might be useful in a kit form is a small programmable
CR-39 (or other item) heater/oven , for use in etching or
annealing. Also power supplies of various kinds could be sold as kit
built. Data data acquisition tools or software may be useful, even
just thermistors, very cheap DVMs, etc. Vacuum pumps. One stop
shopping for all you scientific needs. 8^)
One problem might be all the new laws in place about selling and
shipping such things, especially chemicals. Both selling and
shipping could involve serious legal considerations, especially for
use without qualified supervision, or not in a certified laboratory
with eyewash showers, etc. There may also be problems selling things
for which the primary intent is to produce nuclear reactions.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
