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Originally posted by utabintarbo
Obscure references aside, what exactly are you talking about? I mean for the less-informed among us.
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For a switch, Bill was relatively polite and I get to come in a say what he was
really thinking whilst sounding like the hard case. Sorta like good cop, bad cop if you will. As an aside, Bill must not be feeling well today. Get well soon. LOL.
Bill means that Ben doesn't yet get how everything works together (or against each other). Ben has looked at many designs and noted the relative merits of each. Now he's trying to take all the "good" ideas and combine them into a single block. The various "good" traits are irrevocably tied to other traits and it is not so simple as merely "using all the good ideas at once".
As for Ben, few approaches beat hands-on experimentation to learn how things work. At best, this block of his is a starting point rather than a destination. A lot more experience and education in heat transfer would likely lead to a different first step. Believing that it will be the greatest thing since sliced bread would be naive.
Personally I wish Ben all the best in making his block a reality. I believe, however, that you need the mindset of "it's nothing more than a learning experience". Once he's made it, he would need to study how it works, where it falls down, how he could make it better. It's a refinement process and it's rarely if ever right the first time out the gate.