Well, give Rossi his due: He did "prematurely" sell the low temperature 1MW system -- scare quotes indicating that it is entirely rational for a customer with serious heat needs to participate in what amounts to conventional technical risk of product introduction.
What I find puzzling, however, is the absence of what I might call Bayesian money in all of this: For the essentially zero risk of putting in escrow one third of the price of a 1MW system -- information worth billions of dollars in futures markets alone at essentially zero cost by taking Rossi up on his offer of allowing your techs full access to run whatever tests they desire. Why, with all the virtually hysterical investment in quant finance, hasn't there been a stampede to exploit this offering of essentially free money? On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > (Gee whiz : the COP came out the way we calculated it!) >> >> Very impressive location on the chart. But if I may now move the >> goalposts: that kind of energy density will never power a warp drive. >> > > QUIET!!! ShutUpShutUpShutUP. If Rossi reads this, he will think: "Yes, > that's true. No warp drive . . . Must go back into the lab for two more > years to make a Warp Drive version . . . Published too soon . . . Toooooo > sooooon . . ." > > This is Duke Nukem' effect, a.k.a. The Never Ending Development Event > Horizon. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Duke_Nukem_Forever > > - Jed > >
