Swedish Skeptics Confirm "Nuclear Process" in Tiny 4.7 kW Reactor (Rossi E-cat)

Renewable Energy World ^ | 5.5.11 | Thomas Blakeslee

[Free Vulcan]

Long and a couple of days old but interesting.

[martin_fierro]

Not only cheap to run, but it always gets me to the office on time.

[The Free Engineer]

Hmmmm, Nickel Futures....

[rokkitapps]

how cheap is nickel? I read that a nickel coin (1945-2011) contains 7 cents of nickel. (pre-1945 is silver and worth $2+ ? )

[rpierce]

Thanks for posting this. Although I am completely unqualified to weigh in on the scientific aspects of this, what did catch my attention was the use of nickel. It seems like demand for it could increase significantly in the years ahead if this pans out (along with even the even more significant, game-changing aspects of the energy equation.)

[PapaBear3625]

I found an article "Special report: cold fusion is neither", which discusses a theory behind what's really happening in the e-cat, in case anybody's interested. In a nutshell, the theory is that a sufficiently intense electric field can cause a reverse beta decay (electron merging with proton to form neutron), with the resulting neutron having sufficiently low momentum to be readily absorbed by a nickel nucleus, forming an unstable isotope which decays into copper.

I'm still trying to digest the physics discussed in it, with side-trips into surface plasmon and the Born–Oppenheimer approximation

[Free Vulcan]

"One word...Nickel"

[dblshot]

As gramps used to say, “don’t take any wooden nickels boy.”

[Christian Engineer Mass]

writer needs to read up the difference between kW & kWh.

[PapaBear3625]

The market price of nickel is $27K per ton, or $13 bucks per pound. An e-cat, in 50 cubic cm, holds well under a pound. A unit producing 4.7kw of energy for 6 months is about 20,000 kWh. At $0.10/kWh, that's $2K worth of energy from under $13 worth of nickel.

[Free Vulcan]

Bump. That’s good because it gets us away from the cold fusion label.

[GraceG]

But using Nickel as a fuel will eventually require the mining of it in outer space as it is somewhat rare here on earth....

[Sawdring]

Four words: Silver, sell at 48.

[thackney]

writer needs to read up the difference between kW & kWh

Would you point to the mistake? I haven't found it and I certainly understand the difference.

[Liberty1970]

One analysis I read basically said that the amount of nickel required for global application of the E-cat is trivial compared to the annual supply of nickel already being used. In other words, don't bother buying nickel in the expectation that demand for it will surge.

I posted another thread this morning of Ny Technik's latest take on the E-Cat. The author was able to pick up and inspect the E-cats (thus ruling out hidden wires, etc.), and checked for electromagnetic radiation to be sure power was not being 'beamed' into the device by some method. It's getting much harder to be skeptical about this thing.

[sten]

very interesting.

i’ll take 5

[Liberty1970]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2715363/posts - Link to my thread on the subject from earlier this morning, if anyone is interested.

[MrEdd]

Rossi Ping.

[bert]

One of these tiny reactors could be used to power a wind turbine when the wind is calm

[PapaBear3625]

One analysis I read basically said that the amount of nickel required for global application of the E-cat is trivial compared to the annual supply of nickel already being used.

World nickel production is 1.6 million tons per year. That's a lot of nickel. E-cat usage would not be a blip on the radar.