Okay, so, say you have a machine which puts out 500 Watts with 50 Watts input and the model cost $5,000. Would anyone buy one?
Terry Disclaimer: this is purely a hypothetical situation and any resemblance to real people or machines is merely coincidental. On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Jed Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > >
