Posted on 10/13/2011 10:11:41 PM PDT by Kevmo
Are we on the Brink of an Energy Revolution? Andrea Rossi to Build 1MW Power Plant
Written by Al Fin Thursday, 13 October 2011 12:45
Andrea Rossi and partner Professor Sergio Focardi recently announced to the world that they have created a cold fusion device which produces more energy than it consumes. As you can imagine this has drawn a great deal of interest from the scientific community as well as a huge number of skeptics .
One way to prove your sceptics wrong is to actually do what you say you are going to do. Once the deed is done in a public and undeniable way, there is nothing left for the sceptics to say .
On October 7th, 2011, Italian scientific journalist Maurizio Melis of Il Sole 24 Ore, who witnessed the test in Bologna of the previous day, wrote:
"In the coming weeks Rossi aims to activate a 1MW plant, which is now almost ready, and we had the opportunity to inspect it during the demonstration of yesterday. If the plant starts up then it will be very difficult to affirm that it is a hoax. Instead, we will be projected suddenly into a new energetic era."
-- SilverThunder 05:52, 8 October 2011 (PDT) _Peswiki
But it may not be quite that simple. It seems that Rossi has not yet finalised the design for his ultimate E-cat reactor. How can he build a 1 MW plant if the basic reactor design is not yet completed?
Rossi is apparently struggling to come up with a satisfactory design for a small E-Cat. Today on his web site he issued this appeal:
“The E-Cat basic module “for the People”, that we will put in commerce within months, will be 40 cm long, 40 cm large, 40 cm high, will weight 60 kg, the shape of a cube. I need a design cheap ( I want to put it in commerce at a price of 500 euros per kW) but nice, very nice. I will buy the design which I will choose and everybody has my honour word that I will not use designs not paid. I need it within two months.. .
...Rossi’s business plans are still a mystery, and he’s surely taking an unconventional approach by looking for help at this point from the general public — but that is his style. No one can accuse Rossi of being conventional! Perhaps this little square box will be Rossi’s equivalent of the Model T — a cheap and simple machine that will be able to provide heat (perhaps in time electricity) to the general population. Maybe the idea is that just like with his 1 MW plant, you will be able to connect multiple boxes together to ramp up power capabilities. _via_Peswiki
Peswiki
Hank Mills at Pure Energy Systems (publisher of Peswiki) claims that Rossi's LENR concept has been confirmed by the most recent test. Mills goes on to describe the type of tests on the E-cat which he would like to see, in order to probe the full ability of the reactor .
Mills is not the only one who wants to see extensive testing of the concept and the design. If the "excessive heat" claim is proven, nuclear physicists will need to examine the design and come up with a testable explanation for the unexplained energy .
It is well and good for Rossi to take a sledge hammer to his sceptics by way of a working 1 MW steam plant. But the rest of us want to know what kind of potential this approach may offer in providing a brand new source of cheap and abundant energy. We also want to know if an entire new branch of physics is about to be opened, with all the possibilities for new scientific knowledge and technology which that might mean .
By. Al Fin
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/coldfusion/index?tab=articles
http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Are-we-on-the-Brink-of-an-Energy-Revolution-Andrea-Rossi-to-Build-1MW-Power-Plant.html
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Educate me please. I thought the Ecat already converted heat to electricity. What practical use is a reactor that produces heat but not electricity?
Andrea Rossi was too skinny, but still sexy in “Better Off Ted.” No, wait a second... this is real life; that was a comedy about a team of misfit scientists constantly trying to scam the corporation they worked for. No, actually, come to think of it,...
For now it only produces heat. So it should be a cheap, limitless heating supply. The technology is in its infancy.
The potential is obviously enormous, once the reaction is stabilized enough to produce steam above 400 deg C and then from that it just needs a turbine to generate electricity.
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One step at a time , O impatient one:
http://nickelenergy.wordpress.com/page/2/
http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJbrieftechn.pdf
Cold fusion? I ain´t holding my breath.
Do I have this right?:
A guy named Rossi claims he’s going to have a 40 cubic centimeter, one megawatt nuclear power generator in operation in a few weeks, the design of which he does not have, but is advertising for in hopes someone else will provide it - cheap?
No you do not have it right.
As simplicity breeds truth
Over simplicity breed illusion.
Can you briefly say which part I read wrong?
Exactly, and do it as cheap or cheaper than coal or nuke.
I’m not sure how all these people here have inside info as to the fraudulent certainty of his invention, but seeing the general lack of proof of that claim I’m keeping an open mind in the interim.
“The potential is obviously enormous, once the reaction is stabilized enough to produce steam above 400 deg C and then from that it just needs a turbine to generate electricity.”
Even if it produced steam only at atmospheric pressure (212 F.), it would be worth zillions just to desalinate sea water...
He's going to do all that in a small box and have it on the market in a few months?
From your article:
“The E-Cat basic module “for the People”, that we will put in commerce within months, will be 40 cm long, 40 cm large, 40 cm high, will weight 60 kg, the shape of a cube.
“He’s going to do all that in a small box and have it on the market in a few months?”
Nope, the small box is the one to be sold to the public for 500 euros per KW capability. It will just heat water.
he claimed months ago that this thing would be ready in October, now he is saying he doesn’t even have it designed.
Not surprised.....not in the least
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