Am 05.10.2011 17:02, schrieb Jed Rothwell:
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
This is incredible.
No, this is what happens with prototype machines in cutting-edge
technology. Something always goes wrong. See, for example, the U.S.
Vanguard Rocket flight tests:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK6a6Hkp94o
Things often go catastrophically wrong. That is why it is a bad idea
to fire up an untested 1 MW reactor in front of a crowd of
dignitaries. You are likely to kill them.
People who use ordinary technology such as automobile engines,
electric lights or computers have the notion that technology is highly
reliable, and all you have to do is turn it on. If it does not work
reliably, people think there must be something inherently wrong with
the technology. Any machine eventually does become reliable, but only
after hundreds of thousands of hours of testing, after people
manufacture billions of copies of the machines, and machines have been
turned on trillions of times. In the early years after automobiles,
electric lights and computers were invented they were unreliable and
unpredictable.
The story of Diesel, when he demonstrated an early prototype to his
investors is teached in school here. (At least it was teached, when I
was young)
The machine worked for some turns and then it exploded and made a lot of
black smoke. He was in danger to loose support of his investors.
Compared to this, the water/steam path of the e-cat is low end tech.
They could build this 100 years ago.
I dont understand when it leaks.
Ok, I dont know if all reports about the september demonstration are
true. Might be it was not the plumbing, but the Nickel melted down ;-)
