On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> People who think Rossi and Defkalion are faking or fooling around because > they are late and their devices produce only 470 kW instead of 1 MW know > nothing about history, and nothing about technology. "Only 470 kW" is an > incredible thing to say in the context of cold fusion. > I agree that criticism because it is only 470 kW instead of 1 MW is lame. But that was not the dominant criticism -- if it was voiced at all. The thing is that 470 kW (or 1 MW) is not that impressive when it comes from 107 different devices. It's no more impressive than one device producing 4.7 kW, except perhaps it indicates he can make 100 of them. So as for the one device, the criticism was that no evidence was presented that it produced 4.7 kW (or that the collective produced 470 kW). We had to take the word of Rossi and his engineer. And even going by the data they presented, the hard evidence does not support more than 70 kW (total), because it makes no reference to any evidence that the water was all vaporized. And using that figure, the integrated output does not appear to be any higher than the energy that could have been stored during the warm-up period, or left over from previous runs. And that leaves aside the criticism about the big generator connected and running throughout. And if he really wants to prove 1/2 MW, why release all the heat to the sky hidden behind barriers? Why not use the heat to do something. Bring in a big tanker truck full of water, and show how fast it can be heated to near boiling, for example. Use it to expand a big cylinder of gas to hoist a multi ton truck a few feet up in a show time. Surely there is some visual way to demonstrate that you can produce 1/2 MW from nothing. The Oct 28 show proved nothing, and even you have admitted that.
