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The E-Cat Growls
E-Cat World ^ | Oct. 16, 2011 | admin

Posted on 10/19/2011 8:22:33 AM PDT by count-your-change

Rossi is determined and defiant says the headline. The October 28 testing date for the one megawatt E-Cat unit is fast approaching and it's success or failure means everything to the commercialization of the E-Cat devices.

Rossi is quoted as saying:

"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."

The measure of success has been stated, the test is set and the fat lady has yet to sing.

(Excerpt) Read more at e-catworld ...


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To: Max in Utah

Oh yez. But when was it ever otherwise?


21 posted on 10/19/2011 10:09:03 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change

Totally agree. A scam artists always blames others for his failings.


22 posted on 10/19/2011 10:13:25 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: CodeToad
Perhaps he works with Dr. Emilio Lizardo
23 posted on 10/19/2011 10:20:20 AM PDT by Noumenon (The only 'NO' a liberal understands is the one that arrives at muzzle velocity.)
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To: count-your-change

The ‘customer’ is probably Yoyodyne Technologies - “Where the Future Begins Tomorrow”


24 posted on 10/19/2011 10:22:31 AM PDT by Noumenon (The only 'NO' a liberal understands is the one that arrives at muzzle velocity.)
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To: count-your-change

I agree there is lots that smells of scam about this.


25 posted on 10/19/2011 10:55:35 AM PDT by Jack of all Trades (Hold your face to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.)
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To: count-your-change
The atmosphere above the earth carries an electrical charge opposite the earth. The higher one goes, the greater the difference in potential. Therefore tether a balloon with a copper wire about a thousand feet above the earth and have free energy, free electricity.

One might want to try a lesser height and do so in good weather. Why isn't everyone on to this!!!??

Good question, the e-field gradient is real and as you say free for the taking, however there is a catch. It is a result of "static" electricity (think Van Der Graaf Generator).

Electrical generators in use for power generation today use moving magnetic fields crossing wire coils to induce an electric current in the coils of the generator and because of the low impedance of the circuit, relatively large currents can flow.

Static electricity is the result of air currents which result in "sorting" charged particles into regions of largely negative particles and regions depleted of negative particles leaving them with a net positive charge. These regions are separated by air which is an insulator and represents a high impedance allowing high voltages to develop. In a thunder storm voltages can build to millions of volts but even on a clear sunny day voltages can build to hundreds of volts per meter above the surface. Ten thousand volts is unable to flash over (as lightning) because of the impedance of the air itself.

In sum, our power grid has a low impedance allowing large currents to flow. Static electricity exists in a high impedance environment and develops high voltages. If you tried to connect the static electricity to lets say and electric motor, the low impedance motor would draw almost no current from the high impedance environment (Ohm's law). Without current flow the motor generates no magnetic fields to speak off and it does not turn. The same can be said for electric lights and other low impedance devices that depend on current flow to do their jobs.

Not to worry, all is not lost. Motors that we use today depend on the interaction of magnetic fields (the result of current flowing) which cause torque and subsequently rotate the output and do useful work. It is possible to build a motor that utilize the interaction of electrostatic fields (where + repels + and attracts -, instead of N repels N and attracts S). Now the deal breaker...

Because we are dealing with a high impedance environment, even though we have very high voltage available we get very little current flowing through our electrostatic motor. So what? Well it happens the power output from a motor is represented by the product of voltage and current (watts). Static electricity is not going to work to provide useful power output.

There are niche applications where static electricity may find a home, the electret microphone comes to mind. I have also witnessed logic cards in a servo controller working (half assed) with the logic power disconnected. Trouble shooting the card found that it was trying to run on a static charge.

I hope that makes it clear...
Regards,
GtG

26 posted on 10/19/2011 11:04:33 AM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: count-your-change
He was elderly and from a different time.

A better time, in many ways.

He worked most of his life as a carpenter and never had a written contract, a handshake was trust enough.

Sigh .... Some of us have to work with cheeseparing, chiseling bastards. It makes a fellow paranoid, after a while ...

Only one person in all those many years broke that trust with a bad check.

I'll go out on a limb and guess that he didn't really harbor a grudge against that person.

27 posted on 10/19/2011 11:05:27 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The guy sounds more like a lunatic than a scientist or engineer.

He has a fake EE degree. Supposedly his real degree is in philosophy. He's been arrested in Italy for his previous business dealings.

There's more information here.

28 posted on 10/19/2011 11:17:32 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Moonman62

That’s a great link in your post #28. A must read. That Rossi’s one busy scam-artist. I’m surprised Konmo and his trusty sidekick Wonderbread haven’t shown up yet.


29 posted on 10/19/2011 12:21:51 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: ArrogantBustard

No, grudges just weren’t done. but even with contracts in triplicate people get ripped off and I’ve spent a few dollars in small claims court myself. Even hired a lawyer who took my money and died.
Try to sue someone and your lawyer skips town by dying, the bum!


30 posted on 10/19/2011 12:54:40 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: Gandalf_The_Gray

Well that just ruins “The Next Big Thing”.


31 posted on 10/19/2011 1:21:06 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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