At 09:37 AM 9/20/2009, you wrote:
Ok, so why didn't they pursue tritium? And should we consider looking for tritium in the CFP kit?
It's a possibility. All we have to do is find a lab to do the analysis, I'd say. For best results, we should look at all the objections to the tritium findings and see if we can find a way to answer those, but it's not terribly important. The goal, for me anyway, of the CFP kit is to demonstrate one or several of the phenomena that have led so many to believe that cold fusion is real. Whether or not the results actually prove that it's real isn't the point. We already know that well-done, careful research didn't convince the skeptics, so why should that change because a few of us run an experiment that confirms the earlier work?
However, if a thousand of us run such an experiment, well, it just might start to have an effect..... If we can sell a kit that demonstrates the effects, we might even convince a few skeptics, not because they believe us, but because they try to debunk the thing by trying out a kit, it will be cheap enough that some will.
Buzz. Think of it as creating buzz. If we handle it right, it will also get media attention. I can't predict exactly how it will pan out, but I rather doubt that it will be nothing. I think I already know how to make a small profit for the work involved, even if the damn things *don't* work, and with no fraud or misrepresentation or anything unethical at all.
Smuggling donkeys.
