[PapaBear3625]

Rossi is scheduled to have a pilot plant up and running in Greece by the end of October, producing a megawatt-equivalent of process-heat.

I'll start being more interested when I see his stuff actually working and producing billable energy.

[Liberty1970]

If it works, the world will have changed. I'm been following this since February and haven't seen any direct evidence of fraud or that the claims are exaggerated yet, though there are circumstantial reasons (beyond the usual generic healthy skepticism) to wonder if this is all on the up and up.

If it is real, every car engine, every power plant in the world is going to become instantly obsolete. Oil-producing economies/nations will implode overnight; the auto industry I work in will face a sudden re-engineering of every vehicle in production (a thought I do not relish, we're busy enough already!) as competitors rush to be first to market with new vehicles (no one will want to buy a used gas-powered car, much less a new one, while they wait for the new powertrains). Utilities will collapse because people and businesses will prefer to simply have their own Rossi/Focardi reactors in their own homes/workplaces, and so on. And that is just the tip of the iceberg of the changes we'd face.

That's why my fundamental reason for skepticism is theological: I just have a hard time believing God would make it so easy for us!

[Liberty1970]

If it works, the world will have changed. I'm been following this since February and haven't seen any direct evidence of fraud or that the claims are exaggerated yet, though there are circumstantial reasons (beyond the usual generic healthy skepticism) to wonder if this is all on the up and up.

If it is real, every car engine, every power plant in the world is going to become instantly obsolete. Oil-producing economies/nations will implode overnight; the auto industry I work in will face a sudden re-engineering of every vehicle in production (a thought I do not relish, we're busy enough already!) as competitors rush to be first to market with new vehicles (no one will want to buy a used gas-powered car, much less a new one, while they wait for the new powertrains). Utilities will collapse because people and businesses will prefer to simply have their own Rossi/Focardi reactors in their own homes/workplaces, and so on. And that is just the tip of the iceberg of the changes we'd face.

That's why my fundamental reason for skepticism is theological: I just have a hard time believing God would make it so easy for us!