It's impressive because the ecat has only operated for a few hours. It might be deposits, too. And when the guy comes out to replace Rossi's homemade isotopes every six months, what is he going to see? And is he going to have to scrape off the putty every time and replace it?
It's impressive because the ecat has only operated for a few hours. It might be deposits, too. And when the guy comes out to replace Rossi's homemade isotopes every six months, what is he going to see? And is he going to have to scrape off the putty every time and replace it
IT IS A TEST PROTOTYPE. You are making specious comments to hide your ignorance or perhaps your belligerence.
If you were paying attention instead of just attempting to discredit, earlier articles on the subject stated that the units would be sealed
And if scraping putty is all I need to do to keep a fusion heater in my house for water and warmth I'd do it in a heartbeat.
As much as I think this is a scam, I don't think that is a winning argument. He is working with prototypes; when it comes time to make the production ones. I'm sure things will change, not that I'll ever think he's going to get to that point.
As for the goo he's using as a gasket, I'm sure the production device will use a robust gasket that can take the temperature, pressure and whatever toxic brew (if there is any) inside. Diesel engine head gaskets take an incredible amount of abuse, I'm not worried about the replace ability of the Ecat materiel, if he's smart, he'll have it in cartridge form for them to make the swap easy and economical.
We should have a rating system for our posts that is at the bottom of the post. Something like:
SCAM.= S
REAL.= R
UNDECIDED.- Un
Or maybe at the top so people that don't want to, don't have to wade through posts that might give them the vapors.
It doesn't actually matter what the technician sees. All that matter is what you see and get out of this machine. If some heat exchangers corrode too much then I guess Rossi would have to replace them under warranty.
And is he going to have to scrape off the putty every time and replace it?
There are all kinds of gaskets in the world. A putty is something you use in a prototype because it requires no custom manufacturing and no grooves in joined parts, and it works with any compression (as long as the putty is not pushed out of the gap.) However if the device is designed for opening and closing then other gaskets may be more suitable. For example, your electric water heater (if you have one) has a screw-in heating element or two. These are sealed in the opening with a solid gasket. I don't remember what that was in my heater, but they can be made from various materials, from rubber to plastic to lead. The catch is that the gasket of this type requires a lot of pressure to be fully compressed, and that calls for a great number of screws. Clearly that's inconvenient in a prototype. But solid gaskets are used everywhere.
One example of semi-liquid gasket is the thermal grease that is applied to semiconductor parts before they are mounted onto a heatsink. This grease is poisonous (if it is Beryllium-based) and excellent at smearing on anything that you'd rather keep clean, and it has to be washed off with solvent and replaced when you reassemble parts. There are now solid thermal gaskets too, but the grease is just too convenient, and it is extremely cheap (1% of the price of a solid thermal interface.)