Posted on 10/18/2011 8:42:51 PM PDT by Kevmo
Energy Catalyser: Potential game changer
October 19, 2011
BR RESEARCH
In 1985 the Norwegian music band, "A-ha" released a music video entitled "Take on me" which showed lead singer Morten Harket reminiscing over his love life as he interacts with moving images of his lover on a sheet of paper. While the song became an instant hit; the concept of an interactive multimedia device only received a baffled response of uh huh from viewers.
Fast forward to the present age and any self-respecting techie will greet mention of such technology with an unimpressed duh. Bottom line technology is evolving rapidly and it is creating new possibilities every day.
Fortunately, technological advances are not restricted to personal entertainment devices. In fact, as the worlds energy needs continue to mushroom, alternative energy has been the buzzword among visionary inventors and savvy investors.
These visionaries, keen on riding the waves of innovation, are eyeing a promising new technology on the horizon that could wash away conventional energy generation technologies. On October 28, Italian inventor Andrea Rossi and his associate Sergio Focardi will test their invention called the "Energy Catalyser" (E-Cat).
Rossi contends that this apparatus is capable of "carrying out nickel and hydrogen exothermal reactions". Put simply, the E-Cat is supposed to carry out a fusion reaction which converts a Nickel atom, into a Copper atom, releasing heat as a consequence. This heat can be channellised to power electrical devices, vehicles or machinery much like a steam engine.
Of course, there are many doubts surrounding this development. Chief among which is that theoretically, fusion reactions with any element, heavier than Iron (such as Nickel or Copper) are endothermic, not exothermic. In other words, the E-Cat apparatus would end up using more energy than it generates and would, hence, fail to live up to its intended purpose.
While there are at least as many sceptics of the E-Cat as there are fans; the scheduled test has drawn global attention. If the apparatus is able to achieve what Rossi and Focardi claim; it could radicalise power generation and reign in global demand for fossil fuels.
The "low energy nuclear reaction" would drive down the cost of power generation to a fraction of the cost incurred in even the cheapest conventional techniques such as hydro-power generation. Such a development would undoubtedly be a game changer for countries like Pakistan which are struggling to cough up resources enough to bridge the ever-widening chasm between the demand and generation capacity of electricity.
Even if the E-Cat actually does what it is supposed to create energy at a miniscule cost; it would still take some time before the technology can be adapted for large-scale power generation. Still, the potential impact of this invention is almost unimaginably far-reaching and as such the upcoming test of this technology will likely draw much attention in coming days.
Then the chart does not match the data. Easy peasy. Now all ya gotta do is prove it.
Oh, I know the drill... crickets, backtracking, obfuscating, basic seagulling.
Hey admin moderator:
Here’s a possible set of instances of stalking, as presented by someone other than myself and my moonman stalker.
He makes a good point. How much are freepers expected to put up with?
Kevmo keeps posting the same thing night after night.
I am very familiar with this type of bogus argument.
YOU disagree, neither of you have ALL the facts, yet you keep beating your chest. That is not a conversation. That is harassment.
But I find your type is unable to engage in any other type of social interaction on the net. Constant nay saying is not a reasoned thing to do, it is a mindless, soulless, attack.
Both are naysayers ..moonman’s motive and mine is to prevent complicity in fraud...Kevmo can’t be allowed unchallenged posts of Rossi authored Press Releases in the form of blogs and paid news stories.
Does freerepublic want a story of how an retired marine lost his life savings to a scam promoted right on these boards?
At one time, this PR stuff wouldn’t even be allowed. I know one of my posts got taken down for this reason.
I don't think so.
The proper mode to "prevent complicity in fraud" is to hit the "Abuse" button and let the admin. moderators decide, not vigilantism/censorship by spamming/etc. Which tactics, BTW, are much more reminiscent of DU and leftists than conservatism, which this forum is supposedly about.
2) You lost money because your cold fusion contract on Intrade lost ***No, genius, I WON
You linked it to me, the contract failed .... so unless you bet that it wouldnt be reproduced, you lost.
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now if he did make money that way, personally i wouldn’t be surprised.
aside from the “self-destruct” device implanted, and a history of fraud, and ALL the many other “red flags”,
there is simple logic.
...as the Pakistani article said:
“Still, the potential impact of this invention is almost unimaginably far-reaching “
this is TRUE !
if real, this is worth hundreds of BILLIONS !!!
...how much money, has the USA alone, spent on nuclear fusion research for power?
if this had ANY chance of being real, someone like GE, or any number of Goverments, would have purchased the rights to this from Rossi a year ago.
Companies do that all the time, even for risky inventions.
and GE paying Rossi 1,000,000,000 for the whole package, is still peanuts for GE, with a potential thousand % payoff.
...some would even kidnap him, and get his secret that way, if necessary. ...does Rossi have a bodyguard? why not?
something worth BILLIONS.
and yet zero government or big company interest?
Yes, that is a good point, I thought that it may have been his exit strategy to disappear with all his investor’s money.
Another one of the free energy cons did the same, he disappeared and all the followers said that the oil companies haired the mob to do a hit on him.
What irritates me, is people know he is committing fraud but don’t do anything until the fraud gets big enough to cause a splash. At that point, someone has already lost their life savings.
We have, but the Admin Moderator may not have to time to review the details of these posts and hasn’t acted.
Kevmo’s posts on a 1 for 1 basis aren’t any threat. It is the patch work of PR stories etc.. that are the danger.
You almost have to review Kevmo’s posting history to determine that he is either a paid or unpaid shill for this man. He does need an intervention.
“vigilantism/censorship by spamming...”
So, you think that kind of tactic is OK?
Whiny did you say?
Whose whining now? YOU!!!!!
Answer me this, WHO appointed you the arbiter of truth?
What do you really know? Why should I listen to you?
Who made you Holy Priest of all that is true?
Have you no idea this is HOW science advances? People willing to put their money and knowledge on the line, trying out NEW ideas?
Are you against progress? You sound like a flat earther, afraid to look across the horizon, because you just KNOW you are right.
Narrow minded balderdash.
Your E-Cat kung fu is weak, grasshopper. Everyone is their own arbiter of truth. And science advances by using vigilant skepticism to keep the crackpots out of it.
You sound like a nanny stater. Don’t you have enough faith in your fellow freepers to judge for themselves? Who made you the “decider” of truth?
If you wish to warn, then warn.
But I don’t see that. I see harassment beyond reason.
I don’t remember you on the housing collapse threads.
Did you join in with harassing ex-texan and called him a “gloomer?” Where were you then? Did you defend the idea that the housing market COULD collapse? Why not? THAT did more harm than the supposed harm you are claiming you are worried about.
I have even seen Freepers telling them to get a student loan to go to college, Yeah, leverage, it’s the new thing! All before the crash of 2008. Where were you?
There has been more harm done to others ON THIS VERY FORUM for years, and what did you do? Hmmmmm?
“Dont you have enough faith in your fellow freepers to judge for themselves?”
Yes I do, this is part of the process of allowing them to decide for themselves.
I am a undecided as far as E-Cat goes.
BUT, I despise those who try to shut down inquiring minds.
I suppose they should have kept those alchemists under lock and key, eh?
Science has never advanced in a straight line. It is those who have their position to loose that act like the Catholic Church and try to shut up those who they disagree with, like putting Galileo under house arrest.
You haven’t answered the rest of my questions.
I take it you didn’t care if other Freepers were falsely lead down the garden path of the housing collapse?
Lots of concern there, eh?
Harassment is NOT letting others decide.
You are only trying to fool yourself when you are quite abusive. Just like a wife beater, you claim to care.
I don’t know what you are talking about, but if I saw that there was fraud and it wasn’t being challenged, I would have said something.
If you expect for me to be the kind that piles on .... not me....not the type.
In fact, haven’t even commented on all of kevmo’s threads..some of them caught enough flack that he started posting most of them late at night so he wouldn’t get as many critical thinking freepers to reply.
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