Rossi no longer believes that the fundamental mechanism is transmutation of nickel into copper. Although small amounts of copper have been found, Rossi now believes that that may be a side-effect of the gamma rays that are produced in the reaction. After Rossi mentioned that the process generates 150 kEV radiation, an audience member (presumably a physicist) mentioned that this was evidence of hydrogen fusion into helium. Rossi didn't confirm the hypothesis, except to say that "it made sense".
Maybe it makes sense because when they analyzed his 'ash' from a running E-cat, the elements were in the same proportions as in nature.
E-Cat has commercialized LENR, following a very cautious path. Since the first version only supplies hot water, they're marketing it for building heating purposes. Since industrial safety certification is far easier than certification for home use, they're only pursuing industrial applications at the present time. The next version, the Hot Cat, will productized over the next few months, opening up a larger range of industrial applications. When a lot of experience has been accumulated, they will create products for home use and pursue home-use certification.
Rossi was bragging about having two factories manufacturing the original E-cat to be sold to home users via Home Depot I think, what happened to that? If you follow Rossi's history, he's got factories all over the place. He said he had one of his factories had been heated by an E-cat for two years, where's the factory and that E-cat?
A satisfied military customer has been running a 1-megawatt E-Cat for months, with continuous production of heat energy and no failures. The 1-megawatt E-Cat has been safety certified for industrial applications.
Is this the infamous Big Blue Box that was supposedly working and delivered last year yet when people go to his 'lab', there it sits. I wonder if it's still there.
While I think LENR or LANR is real, I don't think Rossi is.
I pinged Kevmo and WW to get their input. It is odd to see a Rossi article not posted by Kevmo.
I wonder if Mats was ever on Rossi's payroll, and now the checks are bouncing.
I think Kevmo has abandoned FR in disgust over blatant stalking and the failure of the moderators to do something about that. I'm not too happy about the litany of lies and distortions that go on on these threads either.
Before that, both he and I decided to no longer post about Rossi, as the mere mention of the name brings even more knee-jerk nuts out of the woodwork than plain vanilla articles about cold fusion, as evidenced on this thread.
Despite the constant drumbeat to the contrary, neither of us gives a flying **** about Rossi. But we are interested in the broader area of LENR.
My opinion....Rossi.....as usual, inconclusive. Those whose minds (such as they have) are made up ahead of time will, as usual, do their "it's a scam" shouting.
My opinion....LENR as a whole....too much good news to keep up with, from NIWEEK to ICCF17 and many other venues. Only the most rabid anti-LENR types will continue to deny the reality of the science.
But those sorts will still be denying said reality when 90+% of civilization is powered by LENR reactors. After all, there are still people claiming the earth is flat.
I am currently in a major "work crunch" and simply don't have the time to do much posting/responding. Even this short note is taking up more time than I really have to spare. And as things are going, that "free time" isn't going to get larger any time soon. As typically happens, two or three long-term projects are "coming together" at the same time, despite having been started at widely varying points.