Posted on 04/26/2011 5:24:30 AM PDT by Normandy
A recent article by Anne Landman providing a thorough description and analysis of Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat has an interesting conclusion.
“Most of the news about the E-Cat has been reported in blogs operated by people and organizations interested in energy issues, and in the general press and media in Italy, Sweden, Greece and throughout Europe. By contrast, the Energy Catalyzer has received virtually no coverage in the U.S. mainstream media...
(Excerpt) Read more at e-catworld.com ...
Lol....people will take it seriously when it’s been independently verified.
When I can buy one at WalMart I’ll believe it, til then it sounds exciting it’s just we’ve seen it all before.
Until then, lets let Rossi get his demo plant up and running in Greece, producing a megawatt thermal, and get onto his next step. I'm willing to wait and look at progress reports until he gets the bugs out.
If you want to start an E-Cat ping list, please put me on.
I like Rossi’s approach - make a commercial product and let the market verify if it works. If his is the biggest company in the world in 10 years it works.
One of the things I read that is troubling is that a sample of copper that Rossi provided that was supposedly generated from an E-cat turned out to have a 'natural' isotope ratio. I wouldn't expect that to be a likely outcome if the E-cat is really producing energy through transmutation of Ni to Cu.
On the flip side, no one has really given a good hypothesis as to how they are faking it, if that is the case. Nor do they seem to be grubbing for money. Their past is checkered (some real inventiveness, and some shady dealing), which doesn't help resolve anything either.
Someone suggested that if would really help to be able to do a teardown of an E-cat unit. The whole thing could be faked by a well-designed set-up with a wire encased in the 'solid' metal tubing, down through a similarly disguised conduit in the table and down a leg to the floor. That would be difficult, but in the interested of debunking fraud it's an angle that should be investigated. Or perhaps some of the video shows them plunking an E-cat down on the table in front of observers? That would satisfy me on this point.
Likewise, someone should check a demonstration for any unusual levels of electromagnetic radiation, microwaves, etc., by which energy could be hypothetically 'beamed' to an E-Cat without obvious physical connections. These possibilities could be evaluated without the inventors letting an E-cat go to an independent lab, if they are concerned about the risk of patent infringement/espionage.
I have proposed starting a cold fusion ping list, but so far no takers. I would maintain it on my home page if 5 freepers signed up.
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