I was thinking:
As a good example, the ecatnews.com headline reads: "Andrea Rossi:
Almost 100,000 Domestic eCat Orders".
How many of you have (subconsciously?) read this as "domestic orders for
an eCat" instead of "orders for a domestic eCat"? And how many of you
have assumed for other reasons that this preorder list was limited to
individuals? In fact I think it is not limited to that in any way.
If I were Rossi I'd carry a notebook and jot down everyone with a big
mouth : individuals, small business owners, large business
representitives, for the numbers they are even half-jokingly mentioning.
And why not? In the end all these "orders", including my own (which I
put in on the first day the list was opened, when it was priced
substantially higher than it is now), are subject to that one
conditional: the device should work. If *he* knows it works, he knows
the condition is met, and there is no real reason not to accept these
words as a preorder, even if the one who said it was not convinced
himself at the time.
Andre
On 02/10/2012 08:38 AM, zer tte wrote:
http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=510&cpage=46#comment-182601
replying to someone asking how many e-cats where pre ordered already,
rossi made the following comment :
"about 100,000"
As the pre order announce occurred about 81 days ago this gives us
about 1234 pre orders everyday, well i guess rossi's mailbox must be
pretty crowded these days and i think the assistant sorting out all
those orders every day really deserves our gratitude for doing such an
insane job. So how many of these ordered 10+ units ? everyone ? this
still makes at least 123 orders to sort everyday, 100 ? we go down to
12 orders per day, seems more manageable, but anyway something seems a
bit off with these numbers.
