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.
The posters who did encourage others in the housing collapse and harassed those who tried to warn are showing up in these threads. But I could not recall your being apart of that shameful episode here. So, I asked.
My main point is that the advancement of science is not in a straight line. And those zigzag lines can go though people of questionable character. The standard academian does not like that. If this is not real, time will tell the story.
You and anybody else who thinks shutting down curiosity is a good thing have a lot to learn about the history of science.
Not sure what you are talking about, but I complained about how people are going to walk away because they didn’t have a stake in it and it was too easy to come back in less than 7 years to get another one.
Here, you want to research me, here’s how .... but I hope you do the same for kevmo
use google
site:freerepublic.com dila813 “foreclosure”
Just keep changing the key word to search my posts. I hope you don’t Spam me with character assassination, but I have nothing to hide.
For Kevmo, just change the user id.
I certainly wouldn’t promote people running away from their commitments. Other than that, I have no idea what you are talking about.
Look, I will try again, but please read to understand, not just to get your feathers ruffled.
I am talking about something BEFORE the housing market crashed. BEFORE oil reached $140 a barrel. BEFORE the crash of 2008.
It was apparent from your last post you did not know what I was talking about. And I do know how to research users on this site.
I believe I treated you quite well on this particular point.
What key word?
That is a very broad subject.
On what aspect of it? Do you think I haven’t complained about government manipulation of housing prices? I complained all the way back to 1995 on these boards about it and before.
I complained about them making the price high but credit cheap .. a recipe of disaster.
Was on these boards complaining how they constrain growth in the name of the environment when their real cause was raising valuations to increase revenue from property tax receipts.
I could go on and on, is that what you are talking about?
Is this some sort of tests of whether I can be critical of a con artist?
If I don’t met your criteria, can I not point at a pick pocket and warn people to guard their belongings?
Look, it is aparent to me that your reaction is beyond what I am posting.
Try re-reading my posts that started this paritcular topic. I tried three times to explain to you. Then I said that I thought that I treated you well on this topic.
I was ONLY talking about the housing collapse, before it did collapse. Your posting style reminded me of those who mocked Freepers who were warning about it.
LOL. What RIDICULOUS logic. A more likely explanation is that the Admin Moderator had and has no problem with Kev's postings. And whether that was so, or they just "hadn't had time to review the details"....YOU and your crowd of censors have no authority to take it upon yourselves to "make it right".
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."
Kev's postings are no danger whatsoever. The only danger is in your mind and those others who want to shut down discussion of Rossi/Cold fusion.
"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."
I have seen more people telling Kevmo to "keep up the good work" than telling you "spam-censors" to do so.
So it appears that the ones who "need intervention" are you and the rest of the seagulls.
So you think censorship is a good idea. But only if it is the "FRingies" who get censored, is that it??
No, I never mocked them, I was among the complainers.
Again, litmus test for a person pointing out a con artist?
The damage that was done to those who didn’t realize the housing market was a ponzi waiting to fall, is a much larger number of people than the world of those who have money to “invest” in new science.
Is that a litmus test, no.
Just a point of information.
thank you, would never thought that there were more people that thought the housing market was fine than not, prior to the collapse.
I have been complaining about it since 1995 heavily.
Then you saw ex-texan post those housing threads regularly?
I have not seen those who mocked him ever apologize.
It was soooo wrong.
At one time, this PR stuff wouldn’t even be allowed. I know one of my posts got taken down for this reason
***Then you arethe only one among us who has engaged in that behavior.
awww, isn’t that cute? tag team seagull trolling
Kevmo’s posts on a 1 for 1 basis aren’t any threat.
***Then quit bothering me.
It is the patch work of PR stories etc.. that are the danger.
***Like your other conspiracy theories, you’ll need to produce evidence of this. But you won’t.
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.
***I’ve been a freeper for 14 years or so. Never heard of this Rossi guy until last year. Almost everything you post that can be checked turns out not to be true. What does that tell the inductive reasoner about the stuff you post which cannot be checked?
When does it stop being fringie? When the demo is proven valid? Then doesn’t that mean all along the folks who were fans of LENR were NOT fringie?
Do you acknowledge what the warthog said, “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. “
If that is not the proper mode, then what is the proper mode? Why do you think FR put that abuse button there in the first place? Remember, you’re talking to someone who’s been here longer than the mods, FR did not used to have mods.
science advances by using vigilant skepticism to keep the crackpots out of it.
*** So then the difference here is the seagulls are using vigilantE censorship and you think what you’re seeing is vigilant skepticism?
If they turn out to be wrong, and science advances, then your entire observation is going to be bowl sheet. If these guys are so skeptical, why is it they leave so many uncomfortable questions unanswered?
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.
***You have no idea what you’re talking about, as usual. Note that you pretend to know my own thoughts & intentions, classic mind reading fallacy. I post late at night because that’s when I have the time. You are just so full of shiite.
Go talk to them...
Go talk to them...
I have, they just deny it, then I post the proof and then they LOL!!
Bunch of evil people in my book.
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