Jed Rothwell wrote:
Mark Goldes wrote:
One or more are likely to rapidly be knocked off as toys by companies
well known for that behavior.
That would be wonderful. That is the best possible outcome. If a toy
company sells a million of these gadgets, every scientist on earth
will have one, and your troubles will be over.
The Coler reproductions reveal no proprietary information. We have
no control or concern about the power levels.
But why make it so large? Is it easier to construct a large one?
The answer's simple; did Mark ever mention what it is?
The original device (long gone, of course) was a 6 kW device. So, to
attempt to recreate the original device and see if it really worked, one
must build a 6 kW device. See, for instance:
http://www.rexresearch.com/coler/colerb~1.htm
Anything else wouldn't be an attempted replication. It would be a new
experiment.
In any case, I find it very hard to understand why this wasn't pursued
at the time. Of course, the Germans were busy losing the war at the
time of the original experiments, and afterwards the British were trying
to put their country back together, but it's still peculiar that nobody
thought it important enough to attempt to go farther with it.
I suppose a larger machine would be more expensive, more difficult to
construct, and more difficult to evaluate -- unless it self sustains.
Some gadgets only work on a large-scale, such as the tokamak. (One
might argue that it does not even work on a large-scale.)
- Jed
