At 09:52 AM 8/23/2012, James Bowery wrote:
While the Capronismo is humorous (did they envision ground effect?)
the comparison really isn't fair. Rossi's 1MW heat plant is low
complexity and makes a lot of sense from the standpoint of
industrial learning curve:
Base it on a standard unit of replication with a minimal connecting
infrastructure so that you can get the volume advantages.
Anyone buying something like this would want to know about the
performance of that "standard unit of replication."
It would be like buying a thousand expensive integrated circuits
without having independent evaluation of them, and without working
with a development kit with one of them. Companies that do that kind
of thing ("to save time") often go out of business quickly.
Only if there are substantial economies of scale in the core unit
does it make sense to increase its size.
The volume of sales of larger units would be far lower. There is a
sweet spot, for sure, for a mature technology. This is not a mature technology.
If you want to ridicule Rossi, find another way to do it.
Okay. He looks like a complete clown.
Actually, I don't think it's useful to ridicule Rossi, but pointing
out how his business strategy, if he actually has functioning E-Cats
in the 10 KW range or so, is preposterous, isn't ridiculing him. It's
pointing to the obvious.
