Posted on 07/02/2013 8:41:18 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog
Abstract-Third Party Report
An experimental investigation of possible anomalous heat production in a special type of reactor tube named E-Cat HT is carried out. The reactor tube is charged with a small amount of hydrogen loaded nickel powder plus some additives. The reaction is primarily initiated by heat from resistor coils inside the reactor tube. Measurement of the produced heat was performed with high-resolution thermal imaging cameras, recording data every second from the hot reactor tube. The measurements of electrical power input were performed with a large bandwidth three-phase power analyzer. Data were collected in two experimental runs lasting 96 and 116 hours, respectively. An anomalous heat production was indicated in both experiments. The 116-hour experiment also included a calibration of the experimental set-up without the active charge present in the E-Cat HT. In this case, no extra heat was generated beyond the expected heat from the electric input. Computed volumetric and gravimetric energy densities were found to be far above those of any known chemical source. Even by the most conservative assumptions as to the errors in the measurements, the result is still one order of magnitude greater than conventional energy sources.
Heh....even his major supporters can agree with THAT.But I think a lot of it is deliberate, on the order of ".....confusion to your enemies....". In this case, "enemies" being potential or actual competitors.
Nice zinger.
Rossi denied last September that the key reaction was nickel changing into copper. He said that may happen in small quantities, but this is not the primary source of excess energy.
True, but if a caveman named Rossi had discovered fire, there would be other cavemen who wouldn’t believe it until the role of oxygen in combustion had been verified.
Rossi is a promoter, not a nuclear physicist. The NI + H —> Cu reaction is the only credible explanation for a nuclear reaction in his device, since it doesn’t seem to require using heavy water.
He didn’t need to be a nuclear physicist. He just needed to measure the actual products of the reaction, which did not include more than trace amounts of Cu.
And trace amounts of Cu would be enough: nuclear reactions release a great deal of energy.
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