The important thing with the e-Cat is that there don't seem to be any good faith classical models left around to explain the effect.
In other words, all the various demonstrations disprove the notion that this is just misunderstood classical physics. It is either an elaborate hoax, or this is the real stuff. Elaborating models with hot bricks in the reactor core etc. is mostly an intellectual distraction, because a hot brick model is obviously not a good faith model. People can simulate all the hot brick/cement/iron slug/wet vapor models they want, but unless someone discovers something that can be there only if this is a hoax, such models won't speak for the hoax hypothesis. -- Berke Durak
