Andrea Rossi, left, demonstrates the 10 kW heat generating device during the Italian press conference last Friday. Photo by Daniele Passerini, the who reported the day's proceedings in his blog.
Andrea Rossi, left, demonstrates the 10 kW heat generating device during the Italian press conference last Friday. Photo by Daniele Passerini, the who reported the day's proceedings in his blog.
Yeah it was a “hot” idea back in the 80’s.
Love the tinfoil BTW.
Bad news if it is true. All the stock holders in the fuel related market aren’t going to like it. There are billions of dollars hanging in the balance, and it will be easier to buyout the patent rights so it will never hit the consumer market. Just think how much oil consumption will be reduced, and how the price of oil will drop. All the oil producers aren’t going to be happy, including the USA.
EYE IZ LOZT.
It doesn’t produce electricity, it produces heat.
400 watts constant input to produce (and here’s the ? part) 15000 (potential/maximum/then it blows up) watts of HEAT.
I didn’t know heat was measured in watts.
There are lots of garbage statements in the article, which is probably attributable to the reporting, not the lab experiment.
For example, hydrogen feedstock takes a substantial quantity of energy to create. Natural hydrogen contains 0.17% deuterium. The article claims that the hydrogn must be free of deuterium...this would take an even more substantial quantity of energy to achieve.
Also fusion produces neutrons...besides being rather difficult to monitor/measure, lead sheilding does almost nothing to stop neutron radiation (as the article claims).
I’m guessing that they are fishing for investors, not commercial orders.
Any connection to the Dean drive? it’s been around since the ‘50’s but I don’t think it’s quite ready for market just yet.
sfl
Leni
Don’t you just love it when the inventor who publishes stuff owns the “scientific” journal that publishes his stuff? Such a great spin, for what would otherwise be “just some guy’s web site”.
This Magic Water Heater reminds me so much of the ones in Steven King’s “The Tommyknockers”. In fact, my guess is that’s where they got the idea. Oh well, leave it to the Italians to invent Magic Water Heaters.
Hey, at least Pet Rocks did what they were supposed to do.
Can we recharge ourselves with hats like these?
There doesn’t appear to be much shielding around that contraption. If fusion were truly taking place inside it, those guys would not be long for this world, their bodies having been suffused with neutrons.
This is not a patent, it's a patent *application* (remember: you can *apply* for just about *anything*) in the international phase. The int'l search report shows a few relevant prior art documents, and a quick look at the patent claims leads me to believe that no patent will ever be granted on this application.
bflr
It utilizes the fusion of hydrogen and the common element nickel at relatively low temperatures.
Oh SNAP!
And all these years I've been using U-235 for the Cold Fusion Reactor project I'm building in my garage.
Though for about six months I did try using Plutonium but that didn't work. It only turned Lead into Gold, so I went back to Uranium 235. (now I've got all this extra gold lying around and don't know what to do with it.)
[E=mc2 still rules]