> > Even if he's concerned about that, he could disassemble all the way to >> the final core and stop there. > > > He did that, several times. Even with the big reactor people say they > could see the whole thing, under the cell. You can't see much in the > photos, but you can in person. It would be a pain in the butt to remove the > cell, and there is no point, because we know by displacement that there is > nothing else in the vessel. >
He disassembled it all the way to the core? I have not seen any photos except one of a partially but not totally uncovered large box with some finned device inside. I think Lewan took that. Far as I know, nobody saw inside or even around the finned device. I never saw anything remotely resembling a complete disassembly down to revealing the exterior of a core. The finned device was reported but not proven to be a heat exchanger and presumably was not the core. Are there better images of the interior that maybe I missed? Or a written report from a first person experience I can read somewhere? I am skeptical that anyone really got a good look at fine interior details and, in this day of tiny easily handled digital cameras, it is surprising that nobody stuck one out at arm's length and took a clear picture of the interior if it was indeed fully exposed. I think Rossi may have been hiding some things in the device he used in the October 6 demonstration but I can't prove it and I can't know what those things may have been. As for disassembly being "a pain in the butt", that would worry me more if the stakes were not so high. Apparently it's also a pain in the butt to run a blank which would verify the entire measurement method, to calibrate instruments, to (as Jed noted) insert a memory card in an instrument, and most of all to run a nuclear reactor (said to be capable of six months of unattended operation) for more than a paltry few hours. And it's a pain in the butt to show instrument readings to all the scientists and reporters Rossi assembled at his October 28 reveal. And most of all, it seems to be a serious problem for Rossi to get an E-cat to one of the two universities he promised them too. I wish Rossi's butt were somehow a bit more resistant to pain.
