Goals and strategy for social funding - suggestions for discusson

The MFMP is here to help show and promote to the world a new form of energy, in its various forms. The project is set up in such a way that it is able to independently think without having to meet the goals of a shareholder, the dictat of a government or sensitivity of an academic body. It is protected from many of the challenges that have held back exploration of this technology in the past by its flexible members, contributing followers and the nature of open approach. Having said all that - we still need to raise funds to enable ongoing research and here we discuss our strategy for crowd funding!

The perfect experiment and beyond

Celani's wire has the potential to form the core of the perfect New Fire experiment for people all over the world to explore LENR. The beauty of Celani wire, is that it is a form of material that can be easily quantified and methodically explored. Understanding what makes it work will enhance control of the reaction etc.etc.

The project has also had a directive to promote the technology and encourage other players to be open about what they are doing. We have experienced that when we have a major development or announcement, other players have come forward with reports or videos or our releases have oftentimes been hijacked by the commentary of others. We actually love this and want to encourage competition in this space, we want to see the world wake up, recognise, invest in and deploy this technology in its many guises.

Crowd funding goals

Now that we are comfortable that we will be demonstrating something of real value soon, we wanted to share with you the planned approach to crowd funding that we have developed over many months should we get to this point. We will be publishing our crowd funding pitch proposal for people to review in the coming days.

Our approach is to aim low to give us the best chance to comfortably finish the internal experiment design and testing - say £50k, then have an initial stretch goal of £150k for minimum of 3 fully supported replications and then a second stretch goal after that of up to 10 funded and supported replications. We have to bear in mind that supplying the rewards and fees may cost over 30% of the headline figure.

The 3rd stretch

We are planning a 3rd stretch goal as you can see above. In preparation for this, we asked Rossi last year, face to face in Switzerland, could we have some e-cats to live test and he said that lack of certification would not make it possible. Then we said could we buy a 1MW plant for a military rehabilitation center or something similar and essentially he said yes and liked the idea. So, here is what we are thinking, we know that whatever we raise, we will put it to great and efficient use either doing primary live research or maybe better supporting the independent replications we enable, making promotional materials and lobbying government and industry. However, we were thinking if we could raise £1.3m - we do all our intended research, but then seek to purchase a 1MW unit from Rossi, we would expect the money to be held in escrow, so no risk of loss, transfer occurs if unit is delivered and proved to perform. Whilst protecting his IP, we would then have a unit that we could open to the public - and first up would be MFMP donors. The whole process from ordering to operation would be published as is our nature.

This would prevent any loss of momentum in our social fundraising if an independent report was published or other combative media activity was pursued... indeed - it could add significant momentum as it would likely be the fastest way any of us could actually see for ourselves a version of the New Fire in a practical application. If there are problems at e-cat order time or there is a failure to deliver, then we have some strong facts to form judgements on - all the while the money raised would be protected.

If Rossi cannot deliver for any reason or we raise more than we need for our Celani replications but do not achieve enough to purchase a 1MW unit then we already have meetings scheduled with Brillouin and Defkalion in Early April. These companies business model is to protect IP and sell licences to drive development of core technology and applications. We would offer to site our data aggregators in their facilities and monitor them for a number of weeks with the live data published through our established channels - they gain credibility that would likely bring them more licence income without any risk to their IP. If they refuse this offer then it might raise questions. Essentially, we would carry out independent live experiments on their "black boxes" in their facilities under their supervision at no cost to them, so there is nearly no plausible excuse for them to deny us - there would only be upside to participating and downside to not participating. We could even offer the same to Rossi - if we did not raise requisite funds. We would obviously seek wide opinion on what other detectors we would need to have in the test rooms to ensure no other forms of energy transfer.

Why this is important

We are seeing something really interesting and potentially amazing on an energy density basis with the Celani wire - we hope that the next tranche of tests will settle the debate we have encouraged and we will have a great tool for further investigation around the world. That deals with the "is it true/repeatable?" question and would kickstart serious international research leading to proper understanding. It does not deal with the "is it useful yet?" question, and that is the basis for the approach we are suggesting above - where we offer free live exposure to the very people that currently claim to have useful implementations.

We feel there is a lot of mental energy being wasted on the "is it or isn't it debate". If we can show - "look, here it is in the lab" - and "there is an example of working practical energy generator" versions of which will be yours in 5/10/15/20 years in your home, individuals and governments can plan accordingly. Public and private money use will be optimised and everyone is ultimately a winner, no more so than the poor and the environment.

So the strategy is to critically test claims across the board, to have a plan where we all win whatever the truth.

In summary, our social funding priorities for this campaign are

1.  Conclude Celani replication and the development of an incontrovertible experiment

2.  Enable independent replications of this incontrovertible experiment

3.  Work within the stated restrictions of other technology providers to provide better evidence of their claims

Openness, honesty, integrity and credibility are our DNA, our ethos, we want to maintain that and not have it called into question. We want to deliver real answers - you are all critical to making that possible, please let us know your thoughts on the above approach.