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Posted on 07/20/2011 7:32:01 AM PDT by Liberty1970
Ping!
I do not expect to see an e-cat car within the next decade. An e-cat locomotive engine or ship is much more likely within the next 10 years (assuming, as always, that the thing works). This still would have a huge impact on diesel usage, and thus on diesel prices.
I’m not aware of any eCAT technology being discussed by any current physics journal.
As such, I’m inclined to think that these folk’s have about as much technical ability as a liberal democrat.
Time will tell, and I hope that I’m proved very, very wrong.
The same news blurb that mentioned cars also mentioned ships, so you may be right about the initial focus.
I should have mentioned/repeated that Rossi himself denied the September report, but I keep hoping that public pressure pushes them to make a public demonstration sooner than later. I don’t suppose those of us in the cheap seats have much leverage though, in asking for such consideration.
This is an area where I hope to be very, very wrong but this has the sound and smell of all of the shams since the Dean drive. Please let me be wrong.
Hmm ~ I thought we had all agreed that the reason for this is physics journals won’t publish anything about LENR ~ which is why you don’t see anything.
The manufacturer is not going to invest a fortune in new plants for a hoax.
I think this is for real. Time will tell. We just have to wait. I'll bet that it won't be very long.
That's pretty basic stuff ~ just cut, weld, snag, grind, hook in ~ you can cut an adaptive bracket for anything to anything in almost nothing.
Now, as far as major manufacturers doing anything? They'll never get in on it. Due to the Great World Wide Obama Recession labor at custom shops is too cheap, so everything is going to be custom for quite some time.
The link leads back to this FR post. Where is the link to the original article?
It should work.
We did change it to go directly to the article now though.
Then we need to have an electric drivetrain. Fortunately, everything learned from electric cars and hybrid vehicles the last few years will be applicable to the E-cat, so this part should be relatively easy for all the automakers who have hybrid/electric cars on the market. (The ones that don't will get hammered and may be headed for bankruptcy.)
The key is the heat to electric conversion. I think it can be done, but I don't think there is anything off-the-shelf that can be used. I'm not well-informed on that, however.
So we are supposed to believe that everyone else: universities, governments, corporations are building their own versions of this in total secrecy?
Either:
1. There’s no there there.
2. The above enitites are real good at keeping secrets.
3. There is so much skepticism that the above enitites are holding back, and reading threads like these.
I vote for 1.
They have made deals with car companies in the R&D sector in order to research the application of the e-cat in cars, also the same applies for ships. He also said that they made a deal with a very big company , but they will not announce that yet.
I don’t understand your post. The E-cat is a proprietary product developed by Rossi and being commercialized by Defkalion (and Leonardo Corp., etc.) Given that they are the only ones who know how to build one, why do you make mention of other organizations building anything?
Just get the power units going and the torque converters will pop up like dandelions in the spring.
It works properly now.
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