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1 MW E-Cat Cold Fusion Device Test Successful
PES Network ^ | 10/28/11 | Sterling D. Allen

Posted on 10/28/2011 8:34:52 PM PDT by stinkerpot65

Well, the big day has come and gone. Andrea Rossi's one-megawatt-capable E-Cat cold fusion device has been tested in Bologna, Italy; and the unknown customer, who ran the test, is apparently happy.

There were some issues, so it couldn't be run at full power in self-looped mode, but what it did do was plenty impressive.

It ran for 5.5 hours producing 470 kW, while in self-looped mode. That means no substantial external energy was required to make it run, because it kept itself running, even while producing an excess of nearly half a megawatt. Rossi explained the reasons for this in the presentation he gave, which I videotaped and will be posting later.

That's half the rated capacity, but it is still a major accomplishment for the device that was completed earlier this week -- the first of its kind on the planet.

Early in the day with a glitch showing up, Rossi said that they had to make a decision about whether to go for 1 MW output, not in self-sustain mode, or with self-sustain mode at a lower power level. The customer opted to go for the self-sustain mode. Nothing was said about the prospects of a follow-up test, though I would imagine that the customer will be running many tests to understand this gadget they have purchased, and that information will be conveyed to Rossi.

(Excerpt) Read more at pesn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: cmns; coldfusion; ecat; lenr; rossi
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To: Kevmo

CF ping


21 posted on 10/28/2011 10:47:16 PM PDT by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: SpaceBar

“A shill, plant or stooge is a person who helps a person or organization without disclosing that he or she has a close relationship with that person or organization.”

An idiot is a person who takes a position on something even though they do not have all the facts. This person can be pro or con, but their position is taken to make themselves seem more knowledgeable to their peers than is justified by their experience or knowledge...


22 posted on 10/28/2011 10:51:06 PM PDT by babygene (Figures don't lie, but liars can figure...)
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To: Captain Beyond

ah, shucks, I just posted the same article

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2799528/posts


23 posted on 10/28/2011 11:04:12 PM PDT by Kevmo (Caveat lurkor pro se ipso judicatis: Let the lurker decide for himself)
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To: Kevmo

Lol cool. I thought you might have missed this. I guess you were on top of it after all. :)


24 posted on 10/28/2011 11:25:54 PM PDT by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: John Valentine

Ummm, that’s why we have people who report on these events we can’t be at personally.

I prefaced my remarks that I was basing my statements on what I read from the article.

Tell me the conclusions I made that you seem to have a problem with and why, based on what I know from this article.


25 posted on 10/29/2011 12:45:52 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: babygene

The article didn’t say how big their fuel tank was, or what kind of fuel they ran on. Generators run on all different kinds of fuel, I don’t know if it runs on the same fuel your smaller home generator uses. Larger generators aren’t always fueled by gasoline.

I was pointing this out because the article didn’t mention it and if it was known and put in the story, people could have determined given how full they were, how long they could have run for.


26 posted on 10/29/2011 12:49:19 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: stinkerpot65

So, they left this honking big genset connected and running throughout the experiment? Gee, I wonder why they did that...


27 posted on 10/29/2011 4:53:36 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: hinckley buzzard
If Rossi’s device is doing what he claims, it produces excess energy through a Low Energy Nuclear Reaction. That's not a free lunch, any more than the energy generated by a coal fired power plant is. The only difference between the two is the physical mechanism used to extract energy from the fuel source (nuclear reaction vs. chemical reaction).
28 posted on 10/29/2011 7:54:59 AM PDT by twb1960
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To: twb1960; hinckley buzzard

http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/theory/weakinteract.html should give anyone enough to work on.


29 posted on 10/29/2011 5:26:06 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: twb1960
Note, the the Weak Force is probably the reason why nickel doesn't "burn" down to "copper" all the time anyway ~ it could in an older hotter universe of course ~ but not under the current conditions ~ EXCEPT a little bit at a time under highly controlled conditions.

As the universe cools folks will have an even harder time working with this sort of fire, or any fire for that matter.

Good thing we still have plenty of residual free hydrogen atoms around. If we didn't we'd never figure this out I'm afraid.

30 posted on 10/29/2011 5:29:43 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: twb1960; hinckley buzzard

http://iris.lib.neu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&context=physics_fac_pubs&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%3Dweak%2520force%2520low%2520energy%2520nuclear%26source%3Dweb%26cd%3D1%26sqi%3D2%26ved%3D0CB0QFjAA%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Firis.lib.neu.edu%252Fcgi%252Fviewcontent.cgi%253Farticle%253D1010%2526context%253Dphysics_fac_pubs%26ei%3D-ZusTuGQPIOLsQKfz9nyDg%26usg%3DAFQjCNHvu-8AffltUWIkZX2MTFVZ02zcZw%26sig2%3Dig4iEyZW6Nb7f0WlChGU1w#search=%22weak%20force%20low%20energy%20nuclear%22 seems to be a primer on the matter.


31 posted on 10/29/2011 5:46:33 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: twb1960
Just realized that the larsen/Widom paper provides several reasons why a naturally occurring phenomenon on Earth (similar to the corona around the Sun) would appear to suddenly appear, dart to and fro, then rapidly disappear at a high rate of speed out of sight ~ to wit, your typical UFO.

Must be a gas discharge from somewhere ~ maybe natural gas bubbles? No idea what it would be, but it didn't seem to me any of this needed to be particularly hot to occur ~ although it would yield considerable heat once it did occur.

32 posted on 10/29/2011 5:50:54 PM PDT by muawiyah
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