James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: $100 for one foot of 1mm diameter palladium wire > > > http://www.bonanza.com/listings/1-FOOT-PALLADIUM-950-ROUND-WIRE-HH-18-GAUGE-JEWELRY/23681238 > > This is enough to replicate Preparata's experiment. Hardly a bank-buster. >
It is all the other stuff that costs you. You need $100,000 in equipment. Plus you have to devote months to the project or you have to have a graduate student. > Moreover, this result was reported 16 years ago -- long before most > "actual scientists" were convinced that pursuit of replication of the > Fleischmann Pons Effect was a moot point. > They were convinced of that 22 years ago. By 1990 the mass media was firmly entrenched against cold fusion. Most scientists take their opinions from the mass media, just like anyone else. There has been tremendous opposition to this field starting the day it was announced, continuing to the present moment. There was never a time when "actual scientists" were open minded. Many -- perhaps most -- are still opposed to it. Fortunately, many others are willing to look. Traffic at LENR-CANR is at record highs. We do not need a majority of scientists. A few hundred scientists and one or two people such as Dick Smith of Australia is all we need. - Jed
