On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > But what is wrong with that?!? Nearly every effect discovered since 1700 > has started off on a small scale, and was later scaled up: electricity, > electromagnetism, radio waves, fission, lasers, transistors . . . > Transistors have been scaled in both directions: up for power switching, > and down for data. An effect is discovered at low level, often sporadic, in > the laboratory. Gradually it is understood well enough to control. Then > scaled up. That has been the pattern. Why do you insist it has not happened > with cold fusion, or that it cannot happen? I do not understand what you > insist, but you are ignoring history and common sense. > I don't think anyone is saying that. I think what is being said is that Defkalion and Rossi are *already* claiming a scaled up effect and then when confronted with demands to prove it, they become tangential and evasive instead of providing what should be easy to get, high quality evidence that anyone could believe.
