Terry Blanton wrote:
Thanks, Jed. I'm not sure LENR would be an appropriate venue for a mechanical device.
I meant that what would I, Jed, would do. Since I can upload stuff to LENR-CANR, that's where I would put it. But any web site will do. Thanks to Google, the web is nearly universally transparent. Any site that attracts even modest traffic is scanned by Google's bots. (You can check a web site easily; just Google it with some unique search terms.)
As far as models go, a bit pricey to hand out.
I wouldn't hand them out for free! Big mistake. People who accept things for free put them on the shelf and do not bother to investigate them. Charge money, and make a profit as I said. Sell them or rent them.
If it takes you a long time and a lot of work to fabricate one, then I think renting them out for limited time is a good option. A week, or a month at a time, for a hefty sum. That would spur the person who rents it to get with the job of verification.
Here is what you DO NOT want to do: a big, dramatic, pre-announced public demonstration, like that strange company in Ireland did last year. That's a big mistake for several reasons, mainly:
1. The innate perversity of inanimate objects ensures that when the critical moment comes, the curtains open, the limelight and attention of the world is directed at your machine, it will not work. Anyone who attended a trade show knows this.
2. What's the point? Why bother? Why do you want to convince large numbers of people at the same moment? It is much better for any practical purpose to convince modest numbers of people over a few weeks or months. You don't need an audience of 10,000 people instantly convinced (and you won't get that no matter what you do). What you want is a few hundred smart people in a few weeks.
Curtains, drumrolls and dramatic product announcements made sense in the 1950s, when media exposure was expensive and controlled by a small number of television stations and newspapers. Such techniques make no sense today, and serve no purpose. I felt that way during Microsoft's grand roll-out of Windows 98 -- I think it was. Why not just put the technical specs on the web? Within a few days you'll get millions of actual, paying customers reading what they need to know, at practically no cost to Microsoft. Why spend money to send out a message when everyone who wants to read that message will get it at a nominal cost to you anyway, and will ignore the PR Blitz.
People often take actions that are obsolete and no longer serve the purpose. They are more inclined to do this than they are to use some obsolete machine. In other words, Microsoft or the Clinton campaign will take actions or implement policies that were well suited for the Ozzie and Harriet black and white television era without realizing they are behind the times, whereas those same people would never an actual black and white TV.
- Jed
