Great post, Johnny B. I’d like to see a rebuttal from the usual suspects...might take them awhile.
The e-Cat shills will not be happy....
Just more seagull squawking. /s
However it's similar to claims that a bumblebee can't fly. LENR experiments - other than Rossi's - do produce results that are not explainable by the current knowledge. The bumblebee flies. So perhaps more study is required?
I don't know if Rossi is a genius or a charlatan. I don't want to judge him. His work will judge him much better. I want him to continue doing whatever he is doing, and I want his machine to speak for itself. As one of the comments at the blog says, Rossi hasn't cost us even a cent, so why to bother?
He says he has buyers, and the buyers are happy. Good for them. Some say this buyer is a straw one. Fine, I don't care about theatrics. As soon as one real buyer buys the thing and it doesn't work the secret will be out.
You know Johnny, I’ve read a lot of posts about the e-cat, and there are those that insist it’s a fraud. Perhaps it is, but it would not be as easy to fake as people on these threads suggest.
For instance, the argument that the diesel gen-set was running during the test. Perhaps many here have not been around one, but you can tell when the load has been switched off and on. You can hear it. You can see it in the exhaust. Kind of like when an 18 wheeler starts up a steep grade. Black smoke out the exhaust...
Kind of like when you plug your power saw into your Honda Generator, or turn the AC on in your motor home when it’s running on the generator. You hear it when the load is connected and disconnected. It would be obvious.
No, if you wanted to fake it you would not use a gen-set, you would power it from the mains...
Or was the whole thing faked, with natural copper powder added to natural nickel powder and passed off as "products" of the reaction? The fact that the "final sample" contained both the appropriate splits of nickel and the 70-30 split of copper-63 to copper-65 found in nature seems very suspicious as well.
One interesting part is how he made a "fake" power strip, which included a video coax cable "hidden" inside the power cord. That, and a half-mile spool of coax, allowed him to fake sending his high-quality videos between two sites.
In spite of the fact that his device was nothing more than a VCR hidden in a computer chassis and a couple of modified power strips, he managed to get almost $10 Million from companies like Blockbuster and Intel.
The big problem with this “proof” is that they’re saying that because they haven’t figured out how its done, then its impossible.
That is illogical, and fallacial.
Too many researchers have encountered large enough amounts of energy that cannot be answered by non-nuclear chemistry to pull off the dismissal.
They present their opinion well but it fails on exhaustive logic. Proving a negative simply cannot be done. Had they simply said improbable, I would not argue with them.
On the Vortex mailing list, "Aussi Guy E-Cat" claimed that he had an agreement to purchase a large E-Cat from Rossi. For weeks, he's been boasting that this proved that Rossi was legit.
Now, he has published the following:
At Rossi's suggestion we have taken a step back and will wait for the technical specs of the high temperature 1 MW E-Cat plant to be published before we continue our discussions to present Rossi with a purchase order.Amazingly, Aussi Guy E-Cat seems to think that this provides additional evidence that Rossi is, somehow, legit.
Since I've strongly suspected that Rossi was running an investor scam, this is exactly what I would expect to see. Rossi can't produce a working E-Cat, so he will string along potential customers, while continuing to collect investor's money.
Just an interesting bit of new information on what continues to look like a scam.