>> This is like asking anyone would buy a Data General Supernova
minicomputer in 1979, knowing that in a few years personal computers
would become available with far better price/performance ratios.
Analogies like that don't apply. Early computers were expensive but there was
no alternative. Yes, people knew that raw computing power per dollar would
rocket sky high in few years - and yet they just had to buy the expensive stuff
if they wanted the work done right then. All Rossi's machines do is produce
heat. You can have that from hundreds of cheap devices and all Rossi's device
has over them is a theoretical cost advantage in the (very) long run. So why
would anybody buy unproven technology today that eventually breaks even in a
couple of years when even the manufacturer himself says that the price is going
to drop dramatically in a fraction of that time? It doesn't make any sense what
so ever. Except if you do NOT want people to buy the expensive machines but
keep them waiting for another year or so. I can only interpret Rossi's current
talk about super-cheap e-cats in the near future as an elaborate excuse for not
selling anything today.
