> Materials and material preparation are the key to cold fusion. The hardest > part by far. You cannot use just any Ni material.
Exactly! That is why we want to engage the crowd! Because finding exactly the right stuff may be a daunting task. Moreover, even if you think you have found the right stuff you may in fact be wrong. e.g. the Patterson case, it worked then it didn't. Now we are building a database, if something works on and off we'll keep track of it. Maybe some day, some bright scientist sees the connection while slicing and dicing the database. > More to the point, we do not know what Rossi's catalyst contains. I see no > point to trying to replicate without the formula, True, Rossi has the secret, he found it and Rossi is our hero (mine at least). But he is not god, what he can find, we can! And I wouldn't be surprised if there were a zillion other materials that work just as well (or better). > or with material from > somewhere else, such as Ames N. L. Now you're getting there! You're following on this track, someone else follows-up on another. Maybe there is a theory that seems appealing, maybe you found a dusty paper explaining something? Maybe you're inspired by processes already happening in nature, maybe you stumbeld upon a somthing you now think might be explained with,.. C ..F... And everybody tries his own thing. Some don't work, some were stupid to begin with and some are going to work. We know that. Happy mailing! Bastiaan. On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:06 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Horace Heffner <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> This looks more like a Rossi replicator idea than a general purpose LENR >> investigation device. That seems a bit premature, given the publicly >> released evidence provided by Rossi thus far is so lacking scientifically. > > > More to the point, we do not know what Rossi's catalyst contains. I see no > point to trying to replicate without the formula, or with material from > somewhere else, such as Ames N. L. > > Materials and material preparation are the key to cold fusion. The hardest > part by far. You cannot use just any Ni material. > > - Jed >
