On 11-10-25 10:40 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Andrea Rossi said to reporters:
We do not use radioactive materials, do not leave radioactive
material and the highes temperature we can reach is the melting
point of nickel : once the nickel melts, the E-Cat stops and this
fact makes it intrinsecally safe.
In two follow-up questions, reporters asked:
What he meant by "leaving" radioactive material. Earlier he claimed
that radioactivity is detected during the event. It was pointed out
that radioactive materials cannot simply vanish once they have been
created.
And the lead shielding, assuming it exists and assuming it really is
necessary, indicates that there's some sort of hard radiation coming out
(or trying to). When anything you're likely to need lead shielding for
results from nuclear processes, there's generally at least *some* amount
of radioactive byproduct left behind ("some" as in "more than none").
Of course, the measured isotope non-shift suggests that there may indeed
be nothing nuclear taking place, which would make obtaining safety
certificates of all sorts far easier.
Also it was pointed out that the melting point of nickel is
1453°C, and that if the device reaches this temperature before the
reaction stops this could easily cause a serious explosion. This
temperature seems too high to be considered "intrinsically safe."
Rossi responded: "<meep meep!> and ran away at high speed, vanishing
in cloud of dust.
- Jed
