So, when do we get one powering our homes and cars?
I read about this nickel/hydrgen device a while back.
Now i’m getting a little excited about it.
Cool. When does the Mother Ship arrive?
Believe it or not but Plutonium is hard to find on eBay.
Maybe I should try 'craigslist'?
;)
What you are reading is a series of bad jokes masquerading as news. So Mr Mills’ has been pushing hydrinos since 1991 and was - supposedly - able to find enough gullibles to raise $60 M. I am dead sure that these gullibles want periodic progress reports and these news reports are part of the “progress report”. Past hoaxes had the same pattern and continued for decades.
Instead of putting some hard scientific arguments, the reports tout the “pedigree” of the main personalities. The cold fusion flavor of the month is based on Raney Nickel, used extensively in industry and research laboratories. Especially in industry, any excess energy from conventional science would be most apparent and blow up the reactor.
I expect more of such reports appearing on Free Republic, just like I expect the Sun to be bright and the Ocean to be wet.
Last year, General Electric had its “Ecomagination” competition where people submit energy-related ideas and people can judge on them. There were about a dozen ideas which violate the laws of phyaics and each of said projects received hundreds of votes (thankfully none won and that is a tribute to the scientific literacy of the GE judges). All those voters have “sucker” tatooed on their foreheads. Somehow, no related hydrino-based schemes was submitted.
Wake me when they have a working model that can be independently verified as unambiguously producing more power than it consumes. I won't get really excited until they have something that can run without external power, using it's own output power to run itself, produce at least a few kilowatts (sustained) of excess output power, and reliably maintain this for at least a month.
Thanks for posting this. I’ve been thinking of starting a cold fusion ping list.
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From the LENR/CANR website
http://www.lenr-canr.org/News.htm
Rossi 18-hour demonstration
February 2011
On February 10 and 11, 2011, Levi et al. (U. Bologna) performed another test of the Rossi device. Compared to the January 14 test, they used a much higher flow rate, to keep the cooling water from vaporizing. This is partly to recover more heat, and partly because Celani and others criticized phase-change calorimetry as too complicated. There were concerns about the enthalpy of wet steam versus dry steam, and the use of a relative humidity meter to determine how dry the steam was. A source close to the test gave Jed Rothwell the following figures. These are approximations:
Duration of test: 18 hours
Flow rate: 3,000 L/h = ~833 ml/s.
Cooling water input temperature: 15°C
Cooling water output temperature: ~20°C
Input power from control electronics: variable, average 80 W, closer to 20 W for 6 hours
The temperature difference of 5°C * 833 ml = 4,165 calories/second = 17,493 W. Observers estimated average power as 16 kW. A 5°C temperature difference can easily be measured with confidence.
3,000 L/h is 793 gallons/h, which is the output of a medium-sized $120 ornamental pond pump.
The control electronics input of ~80 W is in line with what was reported for tests before Jan. 14. Input power was high on that day because there was a problem with cracked welding, according to the Levi report.
18 hours * 16 kWh = 288 kWh = 1,037 MJ. That is the amount of energy in 26 kg of gasoline (7.9 gallons). Given the size and weight of the device, this rules out a chemical source of energy.
Levi et al. are expected to write another paper about this test. We will upload it when it becomes available. NyTeknik published a fascinating description of the latest experiment (in English). This includes new details, such as the fact that the power briefly peaked at 130 kW. NyTeknik also published an interview with two outside experts about the demonstration: Prof. Emeritus at Uppsala University Sven Kullander, chairman of the National Academy of Sciences Energy Committee, and Hanno Essén, associate professor of theoretical physics, Swedish Royal Institute of Technology. Two versions are available, in English and Swedish.
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