On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > Preposterous is as arithmetic says. Or, as the late, great John McCarthy said: He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense." (firstunit*units^(1-rate))/(1-rate) = Total cost of rollout Choose a "rate" for your industrial learning curve -- say 10% improvement for each doubling in volume -- and do the arithmetic. Choose a price for the first unit. Choose a number of units to be replicated. For a composite unit, consisting of a number of identical subunits, you can start to talk sense. So far, I don't think anyone has tried to talk sense about Rossi's business strategy.
