Jed (many thanks for having sent the CDs BTW, will tell you when I receive them), in the mood to pick up a fight, wrote:
> Michel Jullian writes: > >>I couldn't disagree more. Jones is quite right that if we did have a CF >>process with enough COP for self-powering (he said 4, sounds reasonable to >>me), then a self powered demo would be the very first thing to do. > > But we do not have any such thing. That's what I said :) > This is like saying "if we win the lottery the very > first thing we will buy is . . ." Indeed, and so what? > There is no point to discussing what you would do with a high COP when no > one, > anywhere on earh, knows how to achieve that COP. Ahem Jed, if one isn't free to speculate about the future of CF, you must revove your book at once from the web ;-) > > Two other points: > > 1. The COP alone is insufficient. You must have an absolute power level of > several watts; Agreed, presumably that was the hypothesis too. > you must have reasonably high temperature and a steady flow of energy; and > the cell has be reasonably safe. My guess is that any cell powerful and hot > enough to do this would also be likely to blow your head off at any moment. I > wouldn't want to be in the same room with one. > > 2. As I said before, if you can produce a COP of 4, even sporadically at 1 > watt, I am sure I can bring thousands of people to your door, many of them > with money and plans to replicate. Just put detailed information in a > properly written report on LENR-CANR.org, and people will be breaking down > your door in no time. We have thousands of readers per week and they are > anxious to hear about this kind of thing. They regularly contact scientists > who report significant results. This is probably right but IF I can get a cell to self-power (that was the hypothesis) I make it self-powered at once to get not just thousands but millions/billions of people to my door, because I would be stupid not to do so ;-) Michel
