What about my request for published experimental data and reproduction via a national level agency or laboratory? That’s all I demand.
Sarcasm? If you're actually serious ...then you're going to disbelieve forever, since no lab/agency has any reason to work on the topic. Not without serious funding (and perhaps not even then!) In other words, exactly who would pay for such work?
Extraordinary ideas require extraordinary proof.
Um... the original quote speaks of
extraordinary evidence. "Proof" is for mathematicians; in physics any idea, sane or weird, just requires
good solid supporting evidence, not exotic and special "extraordinary" evidence.
Here's a bit of Trivia: M. Truzzi, one of the co-founders of CSICOP, was the author of the above quote, but later expressed regrets. He discovered it to be a recipe for bias. Why? "Extraordinary-ness" is totally subjective! Everyone has a different threshold. I see a worse problem: to disbelieve anything, just reject all confirming evidence, saying "Nope, evidence still not
extraordinary!" Instead why don't we all just use a level playing field: treat all ideas the same, always with the same high evidential requirements. Don't try to make bias normal and acceptable.
"When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason." -Thucydides. Poor Dr. Truzzi. He could never take back the meme he'd unwittingly released.
A side note: one of the ridiculous things about this idea is the fact it doesn’t actually have a viable commercial benefit even if it does work.
How so?
We presume they intend to sell KWh, while preventing power-theft (employing the original method Tesla described, coded frequency-hopping. Or even perhaps a modern one.) The stuff about Tesla giving away free power was fictional. Tesla expected everyone to pay. Also, we presume that the efficiency must rival that of continental power-grids, otherwise all bets are off. If efficiency is middling, then the system is only economical where large producers or users might exist, yet it's far too expensive to run power lines. Tesla's original plan was to harness a huge number of remote mountain waterfalls: wireless hydro not fossil fuels.
The Texzon hype is discussing emergency backup power service: when disaster brings down sections of the conventional grid, or if you're invading a hostile country while destroying their existing power grid, you can still immediately use (perhaps expensive) wireless power service. No fuel-truck supply-chain to keep the army rolling.
Heh, with mideast oil trillionaires involved, they can pay to run their vacation mansions in the middle of jungles or on mountaintops, yet not be trucking in the fuel to run gasoline power plants. Perhaps do like Gernsback and HG Wells, have a huge cluster of always-running helicopters, set up tennis courts and gardens up there. Price be damned, same as with yachts etc. (The Texzon tower cost ?? $50M, but compare that to the pricier yachts or winter palaces.)
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