Posted on 05/05/2011 7:47:16 AM PDT by Free Vulcan
It still seems like the hot fusion guys aren't working very hard to discredit Rossi if they haven't sent a team to Italy to check on that factory. Pretty negligent on the part of his critics if they haven't even read his latest patent app and discovered that address; or checked the data he has provided, like you have. Maybe they just want to cast aspersions without really investigating? Or maybe they don't want to discover a working factory being heated with the E-cat?
I think the man has an itch that just can’t be scratched until he gets his childhood dreams out in the open for all to see and use. I’ve known more than one person with these silly dreams. Mine was learning to fly a floatplane. Done and now it doesn’t itch anymore.
That seems to be the main mode of operation. They seem to read/watch just long enough/deep enough to find something that can be used to cast aspersions. One example of that was Rossi's work on thermoelectric power generation. His lab specimens worked as claimed and were independently verified. The problem was that the device couldn't (back then) be scaled up to large size successfully. If you read the final report on the DOE grant, it explains all of this and lays out the data. But the ONLY datum that was extracted from that report by the "hot physics" crowd was the poor performance of the scaled-up devices, using that to say "it was a scam", when the report context shows that it was anything BUT a scam.
The "unsafety" aspect seems more to be from thermal runaway. I suspect that at larger sizes, control of the heat transfer in the crude units used is just plain inadequate. Unfortunately (as far as we now know) the only "control rod" for the reaction is temperature, and thus heat transfer. I think scaling up to larger individual modules will require some pretty sophisticated precise cooling.
Previously you had to use platinum or palladium to carry the cold fusion. Kinda cool that nickel is in the same periodic table grouping as those two. So nickel is somewhat like them. The poor man’s palladium ...for cold fusion at least
platinum group metals
A metric ton is 7.3 barrels, which 307 gallons. So 0.36 tons of oil per gram of nickel means 110 gallons of oil per gram, which still does not match up with Rossi's figure of "517 tons/gram". Multiplying gallons by 3.8 liter/gal gives 419 liters, which is much closer and leads me to think that Rossi slipped a few decimals, and meant kilograms of oil per gram of nickel, rather than tons of oil.
Yes, I think he's in it to redeem his name, and to make him a source of pride for his children. He knows he will die in a few decades, he wants something for posterity.
Yeah, after looking at [0087] again I see that I’m trying to replace a weight - ton - with a volume - gallon. Just doesn’t fit.
Rossi is Italian. He wouldn’t be using English gallons. He’d be using metric units, which means liters for volume and kilograms and metric tons for weight.
That does not reassure me. If he is desperate to clear his name, he may be willing to take.short cuts with the truth.
I think Rossi is smart enough to realize that if he screws around with the facts, there’s lots of guys out there waiting to hammer him for it. I’m just waiting for the pilot plant to crank up and demonstrate viability.
I wonder what would happen if you mixed in a little mercury and thallium (elements close to gold and platinum on the periodic table)?[0069] In particular, said graphs clearly show that zinc is formed, whereas zinc was not present in the nickel powder originally loaded into the apparatus said zinc being actually generated by a fusion of a nickel atom and two hydrogen atoms. [0070] This demonstrates that, in addition to fusion, the inventive reaction also provides a nickel nucleus fission phenomenon generating lighter stable atoms. [0071] Moreover, it has been found that, after having generated energy the used powders contained both copper and lighter than nickel atoms (such as sulphur, chlorine, potassium, calcium). [0072] This demonstrate that, in addition to fusion, also a nickel nucleus fission phenomenon generating lighter stable atoms occurs.
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No wonder the theoretical physicists are ticked at the electrochemists. The success of their lab experiments seem to be bludgeoning away at the very bedrock of science. How dare they! And how inconvenient if you have turned to string theory or branes or 10 or 11 dimensions to explain nature. Gads, because of these crazy chemists and their off-the-wall results, atomic theory may have to be rewritten from the ground up. Say it ain't so, Joe!
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>>atomic theory may have to be rewritten from the ground up.<<
There we go. What are the controllers going to do when they learn that they have lost control over nuclear weapons. Not simply lost control on one continent but lost control on every continent. How are the controllers going to maintain control? My guess is they’ll blow up the entire world in an effort to maintain control?
And I didn’t even mention 2012 yet. LOL
Someone is already working on that idea, in California I believe.
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