Robin, Harry, Just to clarify some of my ramblings...
My use of the term "alchemy" was an oversimplified reference to the desire to transmute common elements into valuable elements... i.e. the desire to "transmute" lead into gold. The point I was trying to imply is that the old-world "alchemical" (almost ritualistic) pursuit of creating gold from common elements is, in a sense, metaphorically equivalent to the new-world pursuit of generating lots of clean cheap excess heat, or energy. I would even go so far as to speculate here that what Rossi seems to be doing with his e-cat reactors is analogous to an alchemical "ritual" - in the sense that if you follow the recipe to the letter, and in the right sequence, it would seem that you can end up generating lots of heat. No one yet knows why these "ritualistic" sequences-of-events work in the manner that they do. That's what rituals are really good at doing: Producing a desired result, particularly when the fundamental physics that might scientifically explain what's happening remains (a present) a baffling mystery. Alas, I've often noted that some of the metaphors I conjure up occasionally cause more confusion than their intended purpose. Win a few metaphors... lose a few metaphors. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
