Think hundreds of dollars. Perhaps cold fusion should first be made to work as a toy. Kids and their toys tend to scale up together.
Harry Jed Rothwell wrote: > Jones Beene wrote: > >> It is almost incomprehensible that not a single one out of this very >> broad range of international efforts has yet reached a reliable >> prototype stage, somewhere on the planet. > > I do not find this at all surprising. Nearly all of the efforts > described in this paper were operating on a shoestring in 1990, and > they were crushed within a few years by skeptical opposition. The > researchers all retired or died. Developing any one of these > techniques would have cost millions of dollars, and there were not > even thousands of dollars available. > > >> I almost half-expect at any time that some little known company in >> Finland, or East Moldavia, or somewhere unexpected, will suddenly >> hit the market with a real LENR product - to the surprise of all the >> experts in the US. > > I think this scenario is very unlikely. > > - Jed > >

