On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> James Bowery <[email protected]> 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 costs you. You need $100,000 in equipment. > Plus you have to devote months to the project or you have to have a > graduate student. > I was responding to Jones' argument that Pd price was a serious impedement nowadays. > > > >> Moreover, this result was reported 16 years ago -- long before most >> "actual scientists" were convinced that pursuit of replication of the >> Fleischmann Pons Effect was a moot point. >> > > They were convinced of that 22 years ago. By 1990 the mass media was > firmly entrenched against cold fusion. Most scientists take their opinions > from the mass media, just like anyone else. > You obviously don't understand what I mean when I say "actual scientists". Jones did understand.
