Man on Bridges <[email protected]> wrote:
> In hindsight I'm glad Rossi pursued his approach of building a big system > to be shown to the World, which can produce up to 1 MW i.s.o. of showing > only a couple of small e-cats with only a couple of kW. > I still disagree, vehemently. I think this is a terrible approach, from the business point of view. I think he wasted 10 months on this reactor. This reactor is entirely too big and it serves no useful purpose. It is a crude prototype which the customer will not be able to use for any real world application. Rossi should have done a proper test of a kilowatt scale device back in January. Many venture capitalists and business people have approached me since then, and said they would give him large sums of money and all the support he needs if he will only do a properly instrumented engineering test. > In fact I think Rossi did us all a tremendous favor as it just proves that > this technology is absolutely mature and through it's basic simplicity and > modularity. . . It does not "prove" a damn thing, because he did not allow independent verification of the claims, and we do not even know who the customer is. It suggests the technology is real. It is further evidence of that, which fits in with previous evidence. It is not proof in the engineering or scientific sense. It does not look mature to me. Obviously you can use modules in this method but I think that is a wacky way to build a megawatt scale reactor. It has way too many individual modules and pipes, and way too many things that can go wrong and will go wrong. Many small cells integrated into a larger device would be better. Also, square reactors are a really, really bad idea. - Jed
