Knowing what I know first I would pick friends and tell them everything, have them work with me in the workshop to replicate everything, they would know everything I would know.
After having about 20 such people trained I would build as many as I possibly could and make a list of people in the alternative energy field to send devices to, each with the instruction to test, verify and hopefully replicate and then to pass it another scientist.
I would also give a bunch of devices to everyday people to use, and perhaps one or two to (semi?) famous people.
I would then try and get this on the evening news somehow with a similtanious launch on the web, full details including a video of me building the device from scratch in front of their eyes, full instructions to replicate.
And have everyone with the device also make videos and load them on youtube.
If I was a millionaire I would covertly get a few tens of thousand made and give them away freely to nearby public along with ensuring I was ready to sell a bunch more. (as well as doing a number of the things listed above)
I would also buy some advertising time on TV to ensure it gets on TV.
Now if only the energy cartel would be so good as to give us the same advanced warning...
On 9/2/06,
Jed Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
William Beaty wrote:
>Suppose you stumbled across the same thing that Steorm
>did. Apparently those guys aren't aquainted with the history of FE
>fiascos. (For example, what will they do when the burglaries start,
>or the anonymous death threats are phoned in against their families?)
These things happened to Stan Pons and a few others, but I think such
harassment is exceedingly rare, and nothing to worry about. As far as
I know, all of the harassment against cold fusion researchers has
come from other cold fusion researchers, and from people who do not
believe the effect exists. I have never heard of anyone who is afraid
it might be real and who is trying to stop it. Perhaps that is a
secret motivation but I very much doubt it. Leading opponents at
places like the Scientific American, Nature, Time magazine and
elsewhere have repeatedly asserted that they are dead certain it is
pathological nonsense, fraud, lunacy, etc. I am sure they are telling
the truth about their own feelings. They also say they have read no
papers about cold fusion, and I am sure that is true too.
The people at Hydrodynamics -- along with several experts and I --
are convinced that their device produces anomalous excess heat. None
of us has any reason to doubt that based on extensive experiments.
However, the company gave up trying to convince people of that fact
many years ago, because it was more trouble than it is worth. Since
the excess heat is only 10% ~ 15% it has no financial significance or
practical use. As far as I know, no one ever threatened them or the
people who are working on similar devices 30 years ago. The world
ignores such claims.
If I found something like this, I would do exactly what I have done
all along. I would publish as much detailed information about it as I
can lay hands on at LENR-CANR.org, and I would encourage others to
replicate. Whether this will ever have a positive effect or not I
cannot say, but it seems like the most practical plan for people who
have no money and no access to mainstream media.
I have been doing this for some time, and hundreds of thousands of
people have downloaded the papers, including many at national
laboratories, universities, oil companies and other corporations.
Apparently, many people take cold fusion seriously enough to read
these papers. (I doubt anyone reads them for fun.) I have never once
been threatened or harassed by anyone other than a few cold fusion
researchers. These few are childish, ill tempered, ill mannered, and
undoubtedly they are their Own Worst Enemies. They have made more
trouble for me, and for themselves, than the folks at the APS and the
Scientific American.
The Steorm plans seem excessively complicated and time-consuming to
me. Assuming they have something real and it can be demonstrated on a
small scale who, I cannot imagine why they are going to all this
trouble. If they could make a dozen prototypes and give four or five
to me, or to Bill Beaty for that matter, we could probably convince
the whole world in a few months.
The Steorm people, in common with many cold fusion researchers, seem
to be very anxious to convince mainstream skeptics that their claims
are real. They are determined to publish papers in leading journals
such as Nature, which is (literally) the last place on earth that
will accept these claims. I have never understood why these
researchers want to do this. There are millions of friendly people
out there who are convinced cold fusion is real, and you only want to
know more about it. Many of these people are probably influential and
if the cold fusion researchers would only reach out to them they
could probably get very substantial financial and moral support. Yet
instead of reaching out to these potential friends, many cold fusion
researchers concentrate obsessively on trying to convince their
enemies! I find their behavior incomprehensible.
- Jed
