[Kevmo]

The Cold Fusion Ping List

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/coldfusion/index?tab=articles

http://www.nationalreview.com/agenda/280490/mark-gibbs-e-cat-reihan-salam

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[Kevmo]

The Cold Fusion Ping List

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/coldfusion/index?tab=articles

http://www.nationalreview.com/agenda/280490/mark-gibbs-e-cat-reihan-salam

[dila813]

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[MrEdd]

The article sounds very much as if it were hurriedly written in half an hour.
Could our “journalist” here have written this after a three day bender ... with his boss threatening to fire him?

I don't think I have seen an article claiming that Ecat will cause anthropomorphic global warming before.

[Errant]

A public demonstration in Bologna is scheduled for the 28th of October.

According to a statement by Rossi, this test may be private.

We will run also in self sustained mode, the periods will depend on many factors. In any case, the power output will be 6 times the power input. About the snakes: the time of the snakes is over. The start up of the 1 MW plant is the end of the mental masturbations of enviuos, wannabe theorists, lecturers of calorimetry and engineering. Now LENR goes to the market. The test will not be made by me, but by the Customers’ consultants. Time of chatters is over. Maybe the test will not be good, maybe: it will be the first time I will start up a plant of that dimension, but in this case the problem will be the Customer, not the bunch of imbeciles that instead of understanding that we actually made LENR a reality lose their time digging holes on the surface the water in the middle of the ocean to find the wine. And in the case this test will go not well, we will learn and remake another, and another, and another, but, be sure, we will arrive to the target. At any cost.

http://www.e-catworld.com/2011/10/rossi-determined-defiant-as-1-mw-plant-test-approaches-now-lenr-goes-to-the-market/

[Steely Tom]

As a thought experiment, it’s worth thinking through what might happen to the world if “production costs for anything” were to markedly decrease.

The "dividend" that would be produced in this scenario would be immediately spent by politicians and other elites. It would be converted into a larger dependent class, a larger guaranteed voting block for them. It would be used to supress individual initiative, to undermine thrift, and to devalue self-control and delayed gratification.

In the not-too-distant future, robots are going to displace a huge percentage of the low-skilled work force, already such a hassle to employ. Politicians are going to immediately scarfe up and coddle this segment of society with excuses and promises, trapping them and their decendants in the never-ending cycle. They will be used as yet another ballast load in the never-ending struggle to reach the tipping point.

BTW, thanks for the articles Kevmo. I read every one.

[bigbob]

Intriguing you betcha... Makes you wonder what it would be like to be with Tim Berners Lee the first time he demonstrated his “www” and “http” stuff for the first time, and realize wow, this could change the way the world works.

[Moonman62]

My favorite two lines from the article:

It sounds, and most likely is, too good to be true.
This can’t be serious.

[marktwain]

He is way off on the timing. The transition would take years, not months.

[Lx]

I saw this and I have to post it. Credit goes to XKCD, whoever that is:

Incredibly clever.

http://www.xkcd.com

[Toadman]

Hi Kevmo,

Although I’m skeptical about E-Cat, I still find it fascinating and appreciate your posts.

I would loved to be proved wrong and see this, or some evolution of E-Cat, become viable someday.