On 01/24/2011 02:39 PM, Terry Blanton wrote: > Well, they *do* have one which has run for 2 years. >
Right. Sez who, exactly, besides Rossi? What actual evidence is there of its existence? And if they've had this thing working like a champ for the last two years, why did they sit on the news for so long? To be honest, the "two years" story makes me nervous -- it raises more red flags than it removes, IMHO. > I think the December test was just for private consumption. Once it > is self-sustaining, how long would you expect Dr. Levi to watch before > he was convinced? :-) > I dunno -- a few hours, I guess. 15 minutes wouldn't do it for me, personally, but maybe I'm just more skeptical than Dr. Levi. I've spent too much time reading about people with working electric cars that ran without ever being charged, and working motors that produced more power than they consumed, and working magnetic motors, and magnetic balls that ran around tracks and gained energy all the way, and devices to light LEDs using no input power ... In this case the claimed device is clearly *physically* *possible*, which puts it in a different category. But just because it's *possible*, one can't automatically conclude that it's *real*. This device is still sitting in the middle of the same exact milieu which makes perpetual motion machines so salable: We are in a world which is starved for energy, and people would pay almost unlimited amounts for a solution. > > T > > (How long does it take you to look at a horse shoe?) > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:48 PM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> My eyeballs then scanned the following paragraph: >> >> On page 4: >> >> ----------- >> >> Before ending [Test 1] all the power was reduced and then switched off >> from the resistors and also the hydrogen supply was closed. No >> pressure decrease was noted in the H2 bottle. EVEN IN THIS CONDITIONS >> THE SYSTEM KEPT RUNNING SELF SUSTAINING, FOR ABOUT 15 MINUTES UNTIL IT >> WAS DECIDED TO MANUALLY STOP THE REACTION [CAPS mine] by cooling the >> reactor using a large water flux (note the decrease of the water input >> temperature). >> >> ----------- >> >> I'm puzzled as to why they ran the test in this highly remarkable (and >> historical) self-sustain mode for only 15 minutes. Was there fear of a >> run-away situation, a potential meltdown, or something worse? >> >> Regards >> Steven Vincent Johnson >> www.OrionWorks.com >> www.zazzle.com/orionworks >> >> >> >
