On 01/28/2011 02:32 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > > As long as some number of wealthy investors and big corporations are > convinced and begin serious research, it makes no difference how long > the New York Times holds out. We don't need the whole world to believe > this in Stage 1. We just need people who, in the aggregate, control a > few hundred billion dollars in ready money.
Actually, all you need is one investor with enough money to push it along far enough so at least one 1 MW unit ships to at least one customer, and works long enough to be totally convincing. After that, it's the avalanche. A few 10 KW units, shipped to a customers, would probably be just as good, in fact. Or even /one/ 10 KW unit, delivered to /one/ test lab, which was being funded by /one/ VC group. Seriously, the billions of dollars will follow. They aren't needed to start with. This isn't like wet CF, where the heat produced is flaky and too low grade to do anything with. 101 degree dry steam has lousy Carnot efficiency, but when the fuel is almost free, who cares? And it can't be more than a minor engineering problem to get the steam superheated to 200 C or or more (you're not pushing any of the materials at that temperature) and the efficiency will be a lot better at that point. People with money watch this sort of thing, and they do *not* need the New York Times, or Bob Park, to tell them when something hot is coming down the pike. In fact, if it's confirmed by the New York Times, it's already too late to be a really great investment. I really believe that this is far enough along that what you say, or I say, or anyone on Vortex says, can no longer make any difference whatsoever. Rossi has enough backing to take it far enough to get more backing, I'm absolutely sure, and that's good enough to get the snowball rolling. (The only possible spoke in the wheel at this point would be if it's not for real. That, of course, would be an insurmountable problem.)
