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Italian scientist claims he has achieved 'cold fusion'
The Daily Mail Online ^ | Last updated at 4:56 PM on 4th November 2011 | By Martin Robinson

Posted on 11/05/2011 12:58:45 AM PDT by Kevmo

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To: varyouga

Not an issue. Nuclear regulators are concerned with radioactive substances. There’s nothing for them to regulate here. Neither the reactants (Hydrogen, Nickel) or the product (Copper and according to analysis but not the patent, Iron) are radioactive. Gamma radiation is electromagnetic, so there’s nothing to see there, so to speak.


41 posted on 11/05/2011 7:22:49 AM PDT by dangus
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To: Condor51; Kevmo
If he can fuse Nickel (28Ni) and Hydrogen (1H) wouldn't he get '29' which is the Atomic # of Copper (29Cu)? And, if he can fuse Nickel with *anything*, why waste time and just fuse the already common metals of Copper (29Cu) with Tin (50Sn) and get... GOLD (79Au)! He'd be a real Goldfinger and could rule the world.

124Sn (weight 123.9052739) + 63Cu (weight 62.9295975) might produce 187Au (weight 186.964568), but the mass of the input atoms (186.8348714) is less than the mass of the output by 0.1296966 amu, which means you would need an input energy of 121 MeV to make it happen.

The nickel-to-copper reaction, OTOH, appears like it would have a net output energy of at least 6 MeV (my math on this thread)

42 posted on 11/05/2011 7:39:37 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. Barbarism must always ultimately triumph.)
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To: John Valentine
The only people that Rossi needed to be concerned about were the official observers, and you can be sure they did a complete energy accounting.

How can we be sure of that? Rossi's number one fan says Rossi's demos are non-scientific and that he sucks (Kevmo's word) at giving them. And have they come out with a reason why the output was only at half rating? Perhaps the generator wasn't big enough.

Or you must assume that they were incompetent fools.

Shills and nutballs is more like it.

43 posted on 11/05/2011 7:55:12 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Johnny B.
The fact that no independent measurement was reported of pressure or steam quality indicates that Fioravanti is no more competent than Essen and Kallunder were.

They are all probably getting money from Rossi.

44 posted on 11/05/2011 8:06:24 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: olezip

There have? Let’s see the references ~


45 posted on 11/05/2011 9:02:10 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: olezip
Did anybody here notice that the LAST NOTE on the page at the end of the story said:

LATE BREAKING NEWS: Researchers at the Gorilla-Parrot Breeding Institute in Enfield are to convene a press conference tomorrow on the 'Origins of Amy Winehouse.'.........

This is a less than serious site!

46 posted on 11/05/2011 9:09:19 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Wonder Warthog; grey_whiskers
There have been repeated references to GAMMA RADIATION from Strong Nuclear Force physicists and from "newsies" who weren't paying attention.

They have this theory that it is ONLY through heavy proton or neutron bombardment that you can get fusion ~ real fusion ~ something you can stick your fingers in.

I have been quite startled at the number of people who claim to be trained in the Four Fundamental Forces of the Universe who did not read about The Weak Nuclear Force and "tunneling" ~ an otherwise commonly understood phenomenon that occurs because matter is energy, and visa versa!

Seriously guys, the smart people have been working over their descriptions of the Four Forces and how they work for decades and there are easy to understand websites that can readily enlighten almost anyone who can read.

I have a retarded friend I'm going to pass the Weak Force stuff past and see if he can deal with it. My guess is he can.

47 posted on 11/05/2011 9:16:21 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Moonman62

Edison found plenty of customers for his lightbulbs. That was in a time before Einstein had a chance to pontificate.


48 posted on 11/05/2011 9:18:57 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: dangus
Gamma radiation is electromagnetic, so there’s nothing to see there, so to speak.
Really?!?

Using the traditional, well-established equations for this nuclear reaction, Rossi's E-Cat ought to be putting out enough gamma radiation to kill everyone in the room in a matter of hours, or even minutes. And, the amount of lead shielding he claims to be using is totally inadequate to stop those gamma rays.

Rossi himself claims that his device works by "unknown nuclear reactions" (from his patent application), so he can't explain how it works, or how safe or unsafe it is.

If his device really is a nuclear reactor (as Rossi claims) and no one, including Rossi, understands how it works, it is reckless to allow them to be sold as though they are ordinary boilers. In the U.S., at least, you can't even sell ordinary 1MW boilers without government permits.

Of course, if Rossi's device doesn't really do what Rossi claims, then there is no reason he would be worried about getting certification for his "Mr. Fusion".

49 posted on 11/05/2011 9:24:54 AM PDT by Johnny B.
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To: Moonman62
Rossi isn’t a scientist. He is Italian, though.

If, so, that is the only thing he hasn't faked ...

50 posted on 11/05/2011 9:27:04 AM PDT by NewinTexsas
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To: John Valentine

“If you assume that everyone else is as uninformed and gullible as you are, then I suppose you would assume that they would be as easily fooled. But in fact, there is no reason to suppose that the observers and participants in this demonstration were either uneducated incompetents, fools, or knaves.”

Five convictions for fraud.

http://newenergytimes.com/v2/news/2011/37/3741appendix36.shtml


51 posted on 11/05/2011 9:29:13 AM PDT by NewinTexsas
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To: BallandPowder
IF you aren’t interested in the subject or the inventor then find another thread to squat on.
I'm very interested in the subject. It isn't every day that you get to see a major scam unfolding before your very eyes.
52 posted on 11/05/2011 9:30:05 AM PDT by Johnny B.
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To: calex59
How many times are you going to post about this guy? You have stated his case over and over again, are you afraid we might forget he claims to have solved the Nuclear Fusion solution? Enough already, see if maybe you can add a little roundness to your education and get onto another subject.

Kevmo is a big INTRADE player.

53 posted on 11/05/2011 9:31:21 AM PDT by NewinTexsas
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To: John Valentine

As Kevmo says of Rossi’s test data ... it must be a typo.

(In reference to the 13,000+ kg H2 container that was weighed to an accuracy of about 1/4 gram on a bathroom scale that was calibrated by two people that knew their weight.)


54 posted on 11/05/2011 9:36:45 AM PDT by NewinTexsas
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To: dogcaller; Kevmo
Kevmo is merely extending to us the opportunity to keep current on this matter.

Kevmo is a big-time INTRADE player who has a long history of spamming for his trading.

Kevmo is also a promoter in the homeopathic medicine scam.

55 posted on 11/05/2011 9:38:29 AM PDT by NewinTexsas
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To: Kevmo

Mortadella is cold fusion of a sort too, and the Italians already achieved that.


56 posted on 11/05/2011 9:40:11 AM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: muawiyah
I have been quite startled at the number of people who claim to be trained in the Four Fundamental Forces of the Universe who did not read about The Weak Nuclear Force and "tunneling" ~ an otherwise commonly understood phenomenon that occurs because matter is energy, and visa versa!

It is also theroretically possible that your post was the result of random sequences of electron pulses and not actually written by a person. But one must consider the odds of that happening.

57 posted on 11/05/2011 9:44:50 AM PDT by NewinTexsas
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To: Johnny B.
Using the traditional, well-established equations for this nuclear reaction, Rossi's E-Cat ought to be putting out enough gamma radiation to kill everyone in the room in a matter of hours, or even minutes.

You didn't see the video!

In conventional reactions the energy is released in one large bang. Think of a rock falling through air to a concrete sidewalk. The rock hits the sidewalk in one large bang. Now in Rossi's contraption reactor, it is more like a rock falling through water. Energy is released slowing as the rock falls so there is no hard gamma. Only soft gammas which are easily shielded.

58 posted on 11/05/2011 9:49:25 AM PDT by NewinTexsas
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To: Johnny B.
I'm very interested in the subject. It isn't every day that you get to see a major scam unfolding before your very eyes.

I was at a county fair back in the 70's. This guy in a booth was play a scam and the suckers were literaly pushing each other out of the way in order to get their money in. I remember seeing one dude with his wallet in one hand trying to give the guy money as the dudes wife had him by the other arm trying to pull him away!

59 posted on 11/05/2011 9:52:25 AM PDT by NewinTexsas
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To: BallandPowder
New articles are always welcome at Free Republic. Insults and deliberate hijacking of threads not so much.

Posted by a know spammer who plays the INTRADE markets ...

60 posted on 11/05/2011 9:53:56 AM PDT by NewinTexsas
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