Andrea A. Rossi Cold Fusion Generator

joss82 wrote: post #3

It smells like hoax, it looks like hoax... I can't help hoping for the best, with a heavy dose of skepticism. All we have to loose is some time.

Yeah; I certainly won't be buying the first unit--I'm kinda surprised they're selling a 1MW installation. Most buyers for that would be institutions which would be willing and able to sue if it's a hoax. I'd expect them to sell the 10kw versions over the internet.

Re: Andrea A. Rossi Cold Fusion Generator

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Post by joss82 » Thu, Jun 09, 2011, 12:54 PM UTC

khafra wrote: post #4

joss82 wrote: post #3

It smells like hoax, it looks like hoax... I can't help hoping for the best, with a heavy dose of skepticism. All we have to loose is some time.

Yeah; I certainly won't be buying the first unit--I'm kinda surprised they're selling a 1MW installation. Most buyers for that would be institutions which would be willing and able to sue if it's a hoax. I'd expect them to sell the 10kw versions over the internet.

Unless the big buyer is part of the scam.

Also, there is an imbalance of neutrons when transmuting nickel to stable copper, I wonder where these come from.

Unless they are using 62Ni... but its natural abundance is only 3%. And they mentionned 30% of nickel changed to copper. Are they enriching nickel?

Re: Andrea A. Rossi Cold Fusion Generator

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Post by DennisP » Thu, Jun 09, 2011, 2:48 PM UTC

I've never been a cold fusion "believer" but this is starting to look a bit interesting.

Here's a NASA chief scientist who thinks it might be for real: http://www.evworld.com/evworld_audio/dennis_bushnell_part1.m...

The neat thing is there's actually a theory of how low-energy nuclear reactions might work, which uses known laws of physics. Something to do with the weak nuclear force. It was published in 2006. Since then NASA’s been looking into it, and they’re about to start experiments.

Here's a 30-minute interview with one of the theorists. The interviewer is annoying but the scientist is really interesting. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sandy-andrew/2010/04/17/widom-l...