James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: That's true if Rossi has a handle on the science. There is wide-spread > opinion among genuine skeptics (not to be confused with true believers in > the bureaucratic interpretation of physical theory) that what Rossi has is > more likely a technique that is more replicable and higher magnitude than > the FPE, but little better in terms of theory. >
> If that is the case, progress in engineering will be exceedingly costly > until a scientific research program is executed by those who have access to > Rossi's device or devices with similar replicability. > It may be exceedingly costly, but it seems the people at Cherokee are exceedingly wealthy. They can probably put more money into it than the X-prize can offer, or that it can drum up. That is not to say there would be no benefit to opening up the research to many more groups. - Jed
