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1-megawatt cold fusion power plant now available – yours for just $1.5 million
Extreme Tech ^ | Nov. 26, 2013 | sebastian anthony

Posted on 12/26/2013 7:11:38 AM PST by count-your-change

Believe it or not, the first cold fusion power plant is now available to pre-order. The E-Cat 1MW Plant, which comes in a standard shipping container, can produce one megawatt of thermal energy, using low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR) — a process, often known as cold fusion, that fuses nickel and hydrogen into copper, producing energy 100,000 times more efficiently than combustion. It sounds like E-Cat is now taking orders for delivery in early 2014, priced fairly reasonably at $1.5 million. Has cold fusion — the answer to all our energy needs — finally made its way to market?

(Excerpt) Read more at extremetech.com. ...


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KEYWORDS: algore; bollocks; coldfusion; farce; lenr; rossi; scam; seagullthread
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To: alien_in_nm

Don’t ask me, I don’t even think he has a working prototype.


61 posted on 12/26/2013 9:04:30 AM PST by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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To: count-your-change

Rossi was claiming to have sold a dozen of these gadgets in November 2011, and promised to name an actual customer then. He never provided any evidence that he has such a product.

The only actual evidence of an actual business are the chumps who bought “franchises” in 2012, and who haven’t been able to get their hands on an actual gadget to sell.

It’s also worth noting that Rossi was convicted and given an 8-year prison sentence in Italy in 2000 for business fraud.

This is clearly an investment scam. Later this year, his investers will see their licenses expire without ever seeing a working gadget. Expect the lawsuits for fraud to begin then.

BTW, this was extensively discussed here on FR back in 2011 and 2012. Search for “Rossi”, “E-Cat” and “LENR” for the whole sordid affair.


62 posted on 12/26/2013 9:08:07 AM PST by Johnny B.
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To: C. Edmund Wright

I’ve been a media-reports-of-cold-fusion-success naysayer since Ponds and Fleischmann’s “discovery” splashed across every network’s 6:30pm news.

Like another poster said, show me it running a toaster and a lamp and I’ll change my mind.


63 posted on 12/26/2013 9:12:23 AM PST by Rebelbase (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
C. Edmund Wright said: "Every single big idea and significant development in the history of time was criticized by the gutless nay sayers in the beginning ..."

Let me help you with the logic here.

Here's a similar statement: "Not every single idea in the history of time which was criticized by nay sayers in the beginning turned out to be a big, significant development."

Now let's consider numbers: Which is larger? The number of big, significant ideas? Or the number of criticized ideas that turned out not to be big, significant ideas?

I'd guess the latter outnumber the former by a factor of thousands if not tens of thousands or more.

As others have said, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". I haven't seen anything regarding commercialization of LENR which even qualifies as "ordinary evidence". Rossi's background disqualifies him forever from being able to supply even "scant evidence".

64 posted on 12/26/2013 9:39:47 AM PST by William Tell
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To: tacticalogic

Coal is the cheapest way to make electricity, if you can beat them, you’ve won the market.


65 posted on 12/26/2013 9:46:52 AM PST by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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To: MHGinTN

>>Why? ... Because ‘big oil’ runs the world and that means the media spews what they are told to spew.<<

No, big bankers run the world with fiat money and world leaders do as they’re told.


66 posted on 12/26/2013 9:48:21 AM PST by B4Ranch (Name your illness, do a Google & YouTube search with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
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To: William Tell

That’s true…the percentages are with the notion that it will not be a big idea….that’s what makes it gutless to naysay it….and so you are not further confused, naysaying is NOT THE SAME….repeat NOT THE SAME as a thoughtful statement that something may not work.

Think next time…


67 posted on 12/26/2013 9:52:09 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: Kartographer

order now for just three easy payments of $500,000.


68 posted on 12/26/2013 9:52:27 AM PST by DannyTN (A>)
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To: count-your-change
But having a book of orders might be a valuable property to borrow against.

You're probably right. More than likely, if they succeed in that, the financial crater will be that much deeper.

But, if it really does work, they need a demo. 1.5mw ought to be enough to take a neighborhood off the grid. Here's the power plant. Here's the neighborhood. It cost this much for the plant, this much to operate it, this much to maintain it. And here is our empty list of the times we needed to cut over to the grid.

69 posted on 12/26/2013 9:56:01 AM PST by cynwoody
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To: dangerdoc

Just do like Obama and shutdown the mines. You beat them!


70 posted on 12/26/2013 10:12:25 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Rebelbase

A stable and sustainable fusion reaction is the holy grail of propulsion for normal space travel and energy production. If someone had actually done it, every government in the world would pay far more than a million five just for a peek.


71 posted on 12/26/2013 10:15:39 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: count-your-change; Kevmo

Merry Christmas, Kevmo...


72 posted on 12/26/2013 10:18:18 AM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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To: dangerdoc
Coal is the cheapest way to make electricity, if you can beat them, you’ve won the market.

Coal fired plants are located along rail lines and scaled to handle coal by the carload. What happens to your fuel costs when you scale down and move the plant away from the rail lines?

73 posted on 12/26/2013 10:19:43 AM PST by tacticalogic
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To: count-your-change

Looks like its put up or shut up time.... I will keep an eye on this.


74 posted on 12/26/2013 10:24:51 AM PST by Paradox (Unexpected things coming for the next few years.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
C. Edmund Wright said: "NOT THE SAME as a thoughtful statement that something may not work."

When charlatans fail to deliver, there isn't something to think about or something which may or may not function.

Let's hear your "thoughtful statement" that a LENR device might work. Please include some specifics about design, construction, theory of operation, and economic costs and benefits. Even unicorns can fit into a shipping container.

75 posted on 12/26/2013 10:31:24 AM PST by William Tell
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To: count-your-change

Unicorn scat sold separately.


76 posted on 12/26/2013 10:31:31 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: tacticalogic

They could have compared it to health care as well.


77 posted on 12/26/2013 10:34:45 AM PST by TurboZamboni ("PEACE ON EARTH TO MEN OF GOOD WILL".)
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To: William Tell

I am not assuming these are, or are not, charlatans. Many so called charlatans are indeed charlatans. Many are honest people who have not yet figured their idea out…and many become Steve Jobs, Ben Franklin, etc.


78 posted on 12/26/2013 10:38:20 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: tacticalogic

Why would you do that? Much more cost effective to move electrons than fuel.


79 posted on 12/26/2013 10:40:21 AM PST by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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To: Kartographer

Absolutely correct.

Anybody who buys one of these things is beyond stupid.


80 posted on 12/26/2013 10:48:19 AM PST by Old_And_Grumpy
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