>From Peter Gluck: ...
> I don't uinderstend exactly your idea with the prper pressure- they add > hydrogen, this is adsorbed in part, you cannot add exactly a dosis of > hydrogen- but surely there is a "best practices" type protocol here. My apologies, Peter. Let me try to clarify my previous pressure statement. Since the Vort Collective IS known to occasionally speculate extravagantly at times... <Unorthodox Rossi Explanation Follows> The following is a massively edited transcript originating from a completely unorthodox and totally unscientific source. Never the less, this unorthodox source occasionally gives me interesting tidbits of information that have caused me to ponder, people, events & history in ways that I might not have pondered otherwise. Therefore, - and for what it's worth... ;-) I was told me that some of the spurious results that have plagued the CF community for the past 20 years is due to the fact that the process is extremely susceptible to environmental/weather changes. This includes high and low pressure weather patterns. The implication was that when a mundane weather pattern, such as when a cold front passes through the lab, the environmental conditions could affect the experiment in seemingly unpredictable but dramatic ways. When I heard this statement it suggested to me that it might be useful to go back through some of the old experiments and determine what the "weather" barometric pressure might have been at the time the certain experiments suddenly began generating massive amounts of heat. I'm not sure if this would be helpful however since I gather many labs had numerous experiments running simultaneously - and some would suddenly take off while the others remained stubbornly dormant. Obviously, there must be other "environmental" factors at play as well. The same unorthodox source implied that the current "Rossi" process still has "impurities" (contaminants in the nickel powder - I believe). These contaminants need to be refined out of the chemistry in order to make the process more robust than it currently is (as if it isn't robust enough as-is!). They have no doubt that those "impurities" will be located and removed. They also cautioned that this particular process, if not engineered properly, is capable of generating harmful toxic impurities that could be released into the environment. Such unwanted contaminants could enter the water table where it could remain harmful for centuries. It was not clear to me if the "impurities" being discussed might have been chemical and/or radioactive in nature. I suspect it might have been the latter - meaning radioactive. They stated the necessary engineering" that would be needed to make the technology "safe" should not difficult to engineer. Some here might find it amusing to ponder the fact that this unorthodox source stated that what Rossi and Focardi have been pursuing is nothing more than carrying on a centuries-old (old world) European tradition, one that is close to the art of what we in the western world would call "alchemy". (This BTW, should help explain why I have recently been mentioning "Steam Punk!" in some of my Vort posts.) Old farts like Rossi and Focardi are instinctively comfortable with how to manipulate these old-world alchemical "technologies". It's is right up their alley. Such alchemical explorations at present tend to baffle "modern" western world scientific sensibilities. Nevertheless, I'm sure nuclear explanations will eventually be determined. When believable "nuclear" explanations are "theorized" the western world will probably start feeling much more comfortable with what's going on! >8-0. Economically speaking, I got the distinct impression that they predict that this "technology" will eventually be accepted by the world, this despite initial economic resistance to marginalize it. Most of the initial resistance, I was told, will NOT be due to the newness of technology itself, but rather due to the complicated global economic issues that will have to be addressed first. We have to find ways to make the new technology profitable within the current economic institutions in power in order to move it into a reality. </Unorthodox Rossi Explanation Follows> I hope that some of the Vort Collective enjoyed the entertainment! And now, back to regularly scheduled programming. ;-) Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
