Peter Heckert <[email protected]> wrote: > bending every effort to accomplish these goals. But I have never heard him > say he could be making commercially useful heaters now. > > Then you do not listen what he says. Examples for this are overwhelming in > count and content. > One example: A household sized ecat device is on market in january. > Even the costs are known: 2000$/kW >
That's January 2012. Not now. This is still 2011. You are talking about what he hopes to accomplish in the future. I am talking about what he accomplished in the past, and what he can do now. Assuming the room heater from years ago was real, it is clear that Rossi, like Mizuno, Yamaguchi and many others, cannot easily reproduce his own results. That is not a bit surprising. Heck, back in the Cro-Magnon era of computers, I used to have difficulty making the same object code produce the same result twice in a row. That was with computers, which were supposedly the most predictable, logic-based, closed-universe devices around. I expect he will miss his January deadline for a household eCat. In the R&D business, missing deadlines is not unusual either. Again, even computer programmers have been known to miss deadlines. The fact that people miss deadlines is not evidence that their claims are invalid. For example, when programmers miss a deadline, no one says that the project they are working on is a fraud and the programs do not exist. I rather hope he misses the deadline for the 1 MW reactor test. I fear that device may be dangerous, and the "deadline" might involve actual death. - Jed
