[Kevmo]

http://www.fcnp.com/commentary/national/10516-the-peak-oil-crisis-transitioning-to-cold-fusion.html

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Unfortunately, if Rossi did the following:

1) hired a bunch of actors to pretend to be the customer reps,

2) created an elaborate year-long special-effects-derived series of demos,

3) bribed, hypnotised or otherwise fooled Focardi, Levi, Kullander, Essen, Bianchini, Stremmenos

4) arranged for Piantelli, Miley and a host of others to try to fool the world into thinking that cold fusion was real,

5) got NASA, SPAWAR, The Defense Threat Reduction Agency and The Defense Intelligence Agency to say nice things about the field,

6) got Bushnell to make a fool of himself,

7) and convinced his former partners to set up another company called Ampenergo to pretend that they had a contract for The Americas for a substantial sum ----- or that they just did this with no proof because they have worked with Rossi and trust him because he’s such a fine fellow,

8) sold his profitable company to his ex-partners in order to spend that wealth on a multi-million dollar scam; ----- certain that once he got all the above ducks in a row he would pretend to sell the first device ----- and then reel in the true target of his dastardly plan

9) and convinced a bunch of Greek crooks to set up a dummy company called Defkalion ----- to pretend to fight with him over the non-existent eCat, ----- to perpetuate the illusion and spin it off into a competing mirror-scam

[the second (this time genuine) buyer of a 1MW plant that will net him $2 million dollars ----- until they want their money back or sucker a $100 million dollar deal under the table ----- because he has experience in pulling the wool over all these idiotic eyes ----- and knows that they will just take his word for it ----- and not want to test if his 1MW plant can heat a small village without truckloads of coal or oil or a big fat electric cable coming into the container from beneath the floor (no you can’t lift the carpet!) ]

10) and that, in order to pull this off, Rossi had to risk discovery by interviewing all the people he subsequently fooled so that he could only invite the gullible Professors and not the brilliant anonymous posters on the Internet who surely would have found him out

then, yes, all bets are off and I’m with the guys who think that Rossi is an idiot and they are all geniuses.

[Kevmo]

http://www.fcnp.com/commentary/national/10516-the-peak-oil-crisis-transitioning-to-cold-fusion.html

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[gleeaikin]

So is it a scam, or could cold fusion actually become worthwhile at some point in the future??

[Othniel]

Does that mean it's going to be called "Signore Fusion?"

[Moonman62]

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[HiTech RedNeck]

Mr. Whipple, please don’t squeeze the protons!

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Fusion with nickel absorbs energy, not produces any.

Physics 101

Fail

[count-your-change]

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[BfloGuy]

The Peak Oil Crisis: Transitioning to Cold Fusion

"Peak Oil Crisis"? Just as the world-wide production of gas and oil is about to explode, he brings up the ol' "peak" fallacy. That said, I have no objections to cold fusion as long as not one dime of taxpayer money goes into its development.

[Johnny B.]

So, Kevmo, have you ordered your E-Cat yet?

The slick and professional-looking version of his commercial site is up:

http://ecat.com

Rossi acknowledges that this is really his site here:

http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=510&cpage=33#comment-121582

You can fill out the online form to get on the waiting list!

I also notice he's dropped the promise of holding the customer's money in escrow until they are satisfied if it works. But I'm sure it will work just fine; nobody with such a nice looking web site could be doing anything nefarious!

He also says he will start delivering devices in three months, so I guess we have until mid-February to continue arguing over the lack of any valid information about how (or whether) the E-Cat works.

[rlmorel]

Probably would have done better with a different title. Any time I see “Peak Oil”, my BS meter starts to twitch.

I suppose we will reach “Peak Oil” someday, but it wasn’t in 1969 and it isn’t today.

[Erik Latranyi]

FACTS:

Peak Oil is a myth

Climate Change is a myth

Cold Fusion is unproven

[Johnny B.]

HERE is an interesting thread on the Vortex mailing list, about Rossi's German partner.

They already have a "perpetual motion" power generator that sounds far more impressive than Rossi's tea kettle. It generates electricity and heat without any fuel, which is far better than having to rely on Rossi to provide recharges of his magic pixie dust every six months.

Rossi seems to be consistently picking partners with histories of gullibility and/or fraud.

[Jack of all Trades]

It’s either the greatest technological advancement since prehistoric man learned to make fire, or a scam.

IMHO, in the short term we’d be better off working on COAL fusion (turning solid fossil fuels into liquids and gasses) than cold fusion.

[Johnny B.]

9) and convinced a bunch of Greek crooks to set up a dummy company called Defkalion

Defkalion was set up to hype Rossi's E-Cat. Their internet domain was created the day before Rossi's first public dog & pony show.

The very first sentence of THIS document states:

Defkalion Green Technologies s.a. was established to manufacture and market products based on the E-Cat, which was invented by Andrea Rossi.

So, this part of your argument actually supports the opposite of what you're trying to prove.

[backwoods-engineer]

Here's a simpler explanation of the reaction, showing how 5 grams of transmuted nickel could generate 10 kW of thermal heat for 6 months, assuming 50% efficiency transforming the nuclear energy to heat:

http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=473

[backwoods-engineer]

Here's a simpler explanation of the reaction, showing how 5 grams of transmuted nickel could generate 10 kW of thermal heat for 6 months, assuming 50% efficiency transforming the nuclear energy to heat:

http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=473