This brings up a question I have Re: heat pumps : Assume there's a device that can absorb energy, whether mechanical, electrical, or thermal, but not get hot -- the energy is sent to some unspecified alternate universe let us say for the sake of argument.
Steorn claims that their ORBOs when run backwards absorb energy without getting hot. For the sake of this argument, assume that such a device exists. How useful is this? I can see right away that vehicle brakes that don't overheat would be a wonderful use. Thermodynamically, I can't see how useful this would be, for example, to cool laptop computers whose processors dissipate 1kW, but it may well be useful -- any thoughts? If energy becomes free, then the idea of efficient machinery and electronics would be irrelevant if the excess heat could be disposed of. P.S. This idea reminds me of a couple of science fiction stories: The most recent one was that our use of "free" energy devices absorbs energy from the galactic grid, and eventually the space aliens send us a bill. The other was of an inventor of a vacuum cleaner that never needed to be emptied -- he didn't know how it worked ( black hole inside ? ) but he sold gazillions of them. Eventually the space aliens got pissed about all this dirt raining down upon them and sent it back :-) . Hoyt Stearns Scottsdale, Arizona US -----Original Message----- From: Jones Beene [mailto:jone...@pacbell.net] Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2011 9:08 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:The Rossi device is not a heat pump From: Jed Rothwell No cold fusion device has ever produced a cold area. None of them is a heat pump. Not exactly true, depending on how you define 'cold fusion.' To clarify - in recent testing of nano-nickel by Brian Ahern using various alloy nanopowders (similar to both Arata and Rossi) BOTH heating and cooling regimes have been documented, and in a repeatable fashion, depending on the specific alloy. It is either one or the other, not both (depending on the elements in the alloy).[Hoyt A. Stearns Jr.] ...
