[Jack of all Trades]

IF it actually works, I thought it was only a heat source. You’re going to need more than an inverter to generate electricity, like a boiler and a steam turbine generator head. Ah what are small details like that when no one can explain how it works...

[Gondring]

It became pretty obvious when the Italian patent wasn't filed under a nuclear-process category, but under

PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY (electrochemical processes or apparatus in general C 25; semiconductor or other solid state devices for converting light or heat into electrical energy H 01 L, e.g. 31/00, 35/00, 37/00). http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2717510/replies?c=77

As mugwump56 pointd out, "It would appear the Rossi patent has slipped past as a chemical reactor in which case its possible a practical demo of the device for patent examiner's benefit never occurred."

Then you have the ridiculous claims of huge amounts of energy that generate little puffs of (visible?) steam. I suppose there's no steam jet because the cold-nuclear process opens up a wormhole that bleeds it off into another dimension. </sarc>

[Wonder Warthog]

"IF it actually works, I thought it was only a heat source."

If you read more carefully, you will see that what Rossi actually said was that the CURRENT IMPLEMENTATION is only usable as a heat source, and that was said back in the first couple of demos back in January or so. That was when things were very much in the "research prototype" stage, which was not designed for high operating pressures and temperatures (which are necessary to drive a genset).

One of the things Defkalion was to do (with Rossi's guidance) was to develop the methodologies to extend the operating range to that necessary for purposes other than heating.