Posted on 10/28/2011 10:59:24 PM PDT by Kevmo
The Cold Fusion Ping List
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/coldfusion/index?tab=articles
http://pesn.com/2011/10/28/9501940_1_MW_E-Cat_Test_Successful/
You can fool some of the people all the time.
Ok mo, would you get one of these to heat your house now?
Can’t wait for cold antimatter reactors.
No ashes to clean out!
Nah, skeptics probably won't even notice.
Couldn’t afford any kilowatt hour meter — Rossi lacked the budget....
“These first plants will cost around $2,000 per kilowatt to build one at a time, but once they are mass produced, Rossi expects the price to drop to around $100 per kilowatt installed.”
That’s really expensive. Coal is about 30 per megawatt. So you’d have to run this 3000x as long as a coal plant just to get the initial costs down.
This, however, is much better than the 9000 per kilowatt for solar.
Now why would anyone be skeptical of an experimental unit generating 470 kw just because its sitting next to a running generator capable of producing 500 kw? I'm sure the numbers are just coincidental.
Act II of the Italian Comic Opera.
“is probably rated for 500 kW (my guess)”
Why would you have to guess about this? Were there no nameplates or labels?
If his paying client is a million dollar company, they’d be able to hire a qualified expert, who can watch for possible scams.
If the company was happy with the results, it’s probably fine.
EVERYBODY will be skeptical of any “cold fusion” device. But, when the output consists of relatively low temperature steam - it is obvious why a source of electricity is needed: to power sensors etc. So while skepticism is justified, sarcasm isn’t.
I heard unconfirmed speculation that it was the US Navy.
You say that a 300 megawatt coal fired power plant can be built for 300x30 dollars, or $9,000. If you can make good on that claim, you will have every utility company in the world at your door, checkbooks in hand.
But of course, you are totally wrong. You just don’t realize it yet.
If that’s true, it must be a scam.
There is no way the US navy would have the expertise to figure it all out.
Rossi is going to scam the US taxpayer.
“I heard unconfirmed speculation that it was the US Navy.” ....
Rossi says not.
But without the need for the... coal!
The time between refueling the tiny amount of nickel-whatever substance is very, very long in these units.
And the emissions of anything worth worrying about are for all practical purposes zero.
So, assuming this isn’t a scam, you could put a near infinite number of these generator stations all over the place. That means the source of the power is near the destination of use. Less line less. Less infrastructure. Less EVERYTHING that costs a ton of money to maintain.
If, and it’s a big IF this isn’t a scam... large scale power plants would only be needed near major industrial plants where power requirements are just too massive for these units to work.
And that’s just in the near future. Who knows how refined this technology could become.
And please don’t assume I believe in this, just daydreaming about what might be if it’s real. Since this test was so secretive and no one involved is getting named we have to continue to assume this is the scam of the decade until proven otherwise.
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