>Rossi says here that they issued some sort of conditional permit, with
>restrictions. That is the sort of thing you would expect for an experimental
>device. That sounds plausible. It is what I would expect a responsible
>government official to issue.
Jed, please.
How can rossi had a permit if inside the nuclear site there isn’t even a SINGLE
“Nuclear Warning” panel?
I don’t know in bangladesh or in afrika, but here in Italy even a dentist with
his ultra-low-power X-Ray device, he must have a “Nuclear Warning” panel.
And Rossi said that his machine generate heat by gamma thermalization. Which
mean MEGAWATTS of gamma.
From: Jed Rothwell
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 4:37 AM
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Subject: [Vo]:Hey, it didn't blow up! And by the way, there does seem to be a
permit.
I wrote:
This test has been a colossal disappointment.
I know Rossi pretty well by now, so I was expecting something like this.
Given who Rossi is and how he thinks, this wasn't a colossal disappointment.
Also, this was not a colossal disappointment to me because, hey, it did not
blow up. As readers here know, I was seriously worried the damn thing might
explode or irradiate the audience. I am relieved that nothing like that
happened. It seemed to work at 1/2 of nameplate power. For a reactor they just
finished building, that's fantastic. That is as good as 1 MW.
Rossi is much braver than I am, or much more foolhardy, or both.
As you hear in this video, I am not the only one who is worried about radiation
and other dangers. So are the Italian authorities, as well they should be:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLAdGduQ50A
Rossi says here that they issued some sort of conditional permit, with
restrictions. That is the sort of thing you would expect for an experimental
device. That sounds plausible. It is what I would expect a responsible
government official to issue.
I still think it was much too big a reactor, and I still think the test
schedule was too fast. But evidently Rossi and the Italian officials share some
of my concerns about safety and that's good.
I predicted that a major company such as GE or Mitsubishi would want to get
involved in such risky tests. Perhaps I was wrong and this was a big company.
But if it was an up-and-coming profitable, risk-taking place such as
Manutencoop, that may be the kind of thing they would get into. Back in the
go-go late 1960s, companies such as Data General used to get involved in risky
start-up technology. According to "Soul of a New Machine" there were rumors
that Data General was involved in some actual physical risk and possibly
criminal behavior such as burning down the buildings of rival companies.
- Jed
