I wrote:
> The test will be held in Italy, not Florida, and Rossi told me emphatically > that I am NOT invited. He was upset by my recent criticisms. I was upset by > the fact that he didn't even bother to insert an SD card into a meter, for > crying out loud. > To be fair de Rossi, I should add that not only did I criticize the October 6 test, I also told him I think the upcoming test is unwise. Okay, I admit, I said more than "unwise." One of the people he is inviting suggested that they have an ambulance parked at the factory in case something goes wrong. I told Rossi and that person they should have the entire fire department attend, plus someone from the coroner's office. I also told them I am pretty sure they do not have a license or permission to do this because no sane government official would allow such a thing. This is 1 MW nuclear reactor that works by unknown principles. They intended test it in a populated area, for the first time, in front of an audience. Before you turn on such a machine, it is essential that you spend months and thousands of hours gradually working your way up to that power level with smaller units. You need to test the software and hardware that multiplexes many units. You need to use a conventional 1 MW steam generator to test the overall ability of the machine to handle that much steam. These tests must be performed by hundreds of experts in many different locations, at many different national and corporate laboratories. A machine of this size should be tested the first time someplace like the White Sands Missile Range, with observers located a good distance away in a block house. This is common sense. Doing it any other way is lunacy. It is also as amateur as a would-be pilots shown in the video I posted in the previous message. Yes, it is as bad as that. I am not exaggerating. A person who would even *think* of turning on such a large machine without extensive tests beforehand is completely unqualified to be testing any kind of nuclear process. - Jed
