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Preorder your very own cold fusion reactor
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Re: Preorder your very own cold fusion reactor
#2What I find amusing about this is the fact there willing to turn these things on in an unshielded environment demonstrates they know it will fail. 1MW of the cleanest fusion we know about would still kill everyone in a large room before you could blink.
PS: If it's enough power to heat a cup of coffee you needed serious shielding.
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#3This is really going to be an amazing decade.
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#4FWIW, I did my own research about 2 years ago on this mysterious e-cat device, and I found out there is a surprisingly rich history of unexplained effects in nickel-hydrogen systems: heat that cannot be explained by theory. I am almost convinced Rossi and the few other (competing) scientists who are studying this effect are onto something HUGE. See my post: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=61
Unfortunately the scientific community is very hesitant to review/reproduce the experiments because the words "cold fusion" have had an extremely bad connotation since the Pons and Fleischmann 1989 fiasco.
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#5What I find amusing about this is the fact there willing to turn these things on in an unshielded environment demonstrates they know it will fail. 1MW of the cleanest fusion we know about would still kill everyone in a large room before you could blink. PS: If it's enough power to heat a cup of coffee you needed serious shielding.
Considering it doesn't emit that much radiation, and the one it does is shielded by lead (afaik) it's ok. I've been reading about the Ecat for quite some time...at first I had my doubts...but after being peer reviewed, several tests and running in self-sustain for around 6 months... it is safe to assume it is going to work.
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#6I remember watching the first E-cat "test". This is one of those things that is either an incredible breakthrough or a "the bigger the lie" type scam. The key thing to remember is that Rossi is not doing this to advance some scientific field, but to invent a product for commercial sale. To that end, any tests or data they release is not intended for rigorous scientific review, but to convince potential customers that they've got a viable product.
That being said, it definitely seems that they have some sort of energy breakthrough. Whatever fuel they have in the e-cat outputs more energy per density than any conventional fuel source. What is not clear is if this is a battery (like hydrogen) or genuine fuel source. They have been shown to produce a lot of energy over a period of several hours, but I haven't heard of any week or month long tests being conducted.
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-rossi-e-cat-energy-density-high...
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#7How much does this reactor cost? Can't someone buy and review it, test if it works, etc.?
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#8What I find amusing about this is the fact there willing to turn these things on in an unshielded environment demonstrates they know it will fail. 1MW of the cleanest fusion we know about would still kill everyone in a large room before you could blink. PS: If it's enough power to heat a cup of coffee you needed serious shielding.
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#9I remember watching the first E-cat "test". This is one of those things that is either an incredible breakthrough or a "the bigger the lie" type scam. The key thing to remember is that Rossi is not doing this to advance some scientific field, but to invent a product for commercial sale. To that end, any tests or data they release is not intended for rigorous scientific review, but to convince potential customers that…
What i wonder about is how this scam holds for so long being so easy to test. You attach a simple electricity meter to this and run a lightbulb for a couple weeks, and when you reach the energy spent per unit of device's mass akin to gasoline (say 10 KWh/kg), you are onto something real.
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#10Anyone interested in the subject should read this paper describing two experiments conducted by outside researchers.