The real purpose would be to find out how to
mass-produce similar machines.
It's interesting how you an write something like this quoted sentence and still writing how Rossi is a genius and a great business man. A great business man that sold his secrets for 2M$ USD, with a technology valued over hundred of billions of USD.
-----Messaggio originale----- From: Jed Rothwell
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 11:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:A real customer would not have accepted the 1MW plant. Peter Heckert wrote:
Under industrial conditions and full load it would overheat, leak again, or the electric would fail after the first leak and steam inside. No normal customer would want to buy this.
You are correct that this is a prototype, not a finished industrial product. That is obvious. It has no practical use. That is not the point. It is not the case that a "normal customer" would not want to buy this. If the decision makers at an industrial corporation, or a military organization sent expert engineers to evaluate this machine (as reportedly happened in this case), and those engineers reported back that it is real, then of course the organization would want to buy it. If they had any sense, they would be willing to pay tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars for it. Such organizations would purchase the machine in order to reverse engineer it. Not to use it in an actual customer site application. Using it would be a ridiculous thing to do. The only value this machine has is the information about what it is and how to make it. In 1942 the United States Navy captured a Zero fighter plane in Alaska, after the Battle of Midway. The airplane was taken back to the United States and tested extensively. It was a gold mine of engineering intelligence. At about the same time, the Japanese army captured several US bulldozers and other mechanized construction equipment, in the Philippines I believe. This equipment was not taken to Japan. It was used on site, and eventually it wore out and was destroyed. Bulldozers were critical to the war effort. Japanese industry had no experience making them. Bringing them back to Japan would have been an intelligence gold mine. (A retired Japanese army soldier told me about this.) Using the 1 MW reactor for an commercial application would be like using bulldozers on site. It would be like using the zero fighter plane for replacement parts at a US Naval base, instead of testing it and evaluating its performance. Granted, you might want to install it at an actual site to observe performance under real-world conditions. You would use extensive instrumentation. The real purpose would be to find out how to mass-produce similar machines. - Jed
