> Higgins Bob-CBH003 <[email protected]> wrote: > > One of the reasons that Rossi may not wish to run a very long > test is that > > I suspect that HE is the control mechanism. When it is run > > in self-sustaining mode, after some period it will need to be > > briefly reheated to stabilize the mode. If it was not in > > self-sustaining mode, then it may be in greater danger of > > thermal run-away . . . > > > This is what Rossi has said on many occasions. He says he cannot > leave the thing, especially in self-sustaining mode.
The idea that Rossi would do an unconvincing demo because he needed to empty his bladder or get some sleep, and could not delegate control for a while, makes little sense. Rossi is not doing the whole thing by himself. He has a team working with/for him. If he wanted to put on a convincing demo, especially when the observers included an engineer from NASA, a possible source of all that nice money, then wouldn't he have taught the team members how to do whatever was needed to periodically stabilize the reaction?
