OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: It's quite odd to notice that on the skeptical side of the fence the subject > of CF continues to be perceived as a bogus & completely unproven source of > energy. Therefore, one would infer from such conclusions that Rossi's 1 MW > demonstration couldn't possibly harm a fly. >
If it is fake, presumably those are electric heaters. Fake or real, it will produce a great deal of steam -- presumably about a megawatt, or it will not fool anyone. He could hardly get away with dry ice instead of steam. 1 MW of anything is dangerous: steam, hot water, hot air, electricity . . . Very dangerous! I have always been enchanted by heavy equipment such as railroad locomotives, airplanes, and factory tools. I guess it runs in the family since my father worked in the engine room of a ship. He was almost killed by a deck engine. His arm was crushed. One of my earliest memories is the smell, noise, and heat of a locomotive arriving at a station, and my father saying: "stand back, those things are dangerous." See "The Secret of the Machines": Do you wish to make the mountains bare their head And lay their new-cut forests at your feet ? Do you want to turn a river in its bed, Or plant a barren wilderness with wheat ? . . . . . . It is easy! Give us dynamite and drills! Watch the iron-shouldered rocks lie down and quake, As the thirsty desert-level floods and fills, And the valley we have dammed becomes a lake. But remember, please, the Law by which we live, We are not built to comprehend a lie, We can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die! http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_secretmachines.htm - Jed
