First, dont get me wrong. I thought the Bologna demo was robust and legitimate at the time, and still think it could have been strongly OU but less so than appearances might indicate.
However, there is no real proof of any huge gain until better controls are implemented. I agree fully with Horace that the demo was shoddy. However, all of us must realize by now, that any further public testing CANNOT HELP Rossi. Deals are signed and he has nothing to gain till he gets the megawatt device ready. A scenario which can answer a lot of questions would be this: 1) Focardi, Piantelli and many others have built Ni-H experiments for years that showed modest gain 2) Mills has built Ni-H systems that purportedly show much higher gain 3) Rossi teamed with Focardi circa 2006, and they were able to get a system up to say COP of 4 by using nanopowder and Mills catalysts maybe less, but reliable. 4) Focardi is in ill-health and recently asks for a public demo while he can still enjoy it 5) At this time, Rossi is already arranging a deal with the Greeks, possibly for far less money than was finalized after the demo. 6) Rossi decides to do the Bologna demo for the benefit of his old friend and mentor 7) Then flash Rossi decides he can enhance the demo, and possibly close the deal with the Greeks for more up-front cash - by using the low COP of about 4 to heat a peroxide blend and get the apparent COP up to maybe 30. 8) He would already know about this blend, since the Chinese have been promoting it for a year or so. 9) Then the demo in Bologna and the positive PR. 10) The Greeks see this demo, are very impressed, fear competition - and sign the check in January for more than they wanted to. 11) Of course a part of the funds are in escrow, but remember, Rossi can still build reactors that are OU, so he can pull off something impressive in the end, even without the peroxide boost and get the full payment. 12) Thus he has worded the contract in such a way that in the end a showing of strong overunity is the criterion not the full 30-1 gain 13) ERGO even without the enhancement he used in the demo he can be successful on the contract clauses and claim his fee, but it might require 700 reactors to get to the megawatt instead of 100. 14) Even with 700 it still makes economic sense but at 3 cents per kW-hr instead of 1 cent. 15) In the mean time Rossi thinks that by using U of Bologna, the Swedes and others - to figure out the underlying details that he realizes he does not know, he might actually get the device into a more robust range than his fall-back gain (COP = ~4) 16) Everyone lives happily ever after From: Jed Rothwell Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: Considerably less than the $100 million Euros that a Greek investor might be willing to advance . Ha, ha. And how would this work now that they are testing it in Rossi's absence? I imagine they will notice. Surely the hidden tank will run out, or they will try another source of water. BTW calculations based on heat content can be thrown out the window with peroxide blends, which produce cold steam with less energy than seems physically possible What is "cold steam"? This stuff boils at 150°C, it seems. The Rossi device steam is 101°C, if you believe thermometers work. - Jed
