On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Given your absolutist declaration about "complete lack of funding. Zero >> dollars" you clearly don't consider the approach being taken by MFMP to be >> valid no matter what they do but I disagree. >> > > MFMP has a little money which they provided themselves, plus a little more > from me and others. Not enough to do what needs to be done, I am afraid. > They need an SEM and other expensive toys to do an analysis of the metal > before and after. Without that they are flying blind. > Before and after _what_? My point is that expenditures on diagnostics is getting the cart before the horse. The route to reproducible cold fusion -- hence scientific progress -- is in the economic trial of large numbers of Pd electrodes with adequate electrochemistry, looking for effects of large enough amplitude that the phenomenon is obvious to the most casual observer. That's _what_.
