On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Paul Breed <[email protected]> wrote:
I realize that I've shown up here as a newbe and immediately gored the > sacred cows and questioned the answers of some of the most respected > longest contributing members on this list. I do so with great respect > for your opinions and only want to explore why and how not insult or > denigrate. > So if your at all put off by my responses, please accept my apology. > Your ideas are very interesting. Don't worry about goring sacred cows; sometimes it is fun to do this in limited amounts. Intuitively, the wind-tunnel analogy makes a lot of sense. With limited funding available, an Edisonian trial-and-error approach that makes use of systematic protocols and in which the results are made generally available is perhaps the best one for the moment. From watching the MFMP difficulties with calorimetry, I take it that any kind of calorimetry will add a lot of latency to this approach. Eric
