On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Mary Yugo <[email protected]> wrote:
> > It's easy to "dope" a device with a gamma emitter to > fake a result but the test should involve the gamma source turning on > and off with the E-cat power. That can be spoofed too but it's more > difficult to do. > > Putting in a gamma source is easy. Putting one in that could account for the 10 kW of power? Not so easy. This would correspond to megacuries, or at least hundreds of kCi. That's 1000 times more radioactive than the sources in devices used for radiotherapy, and unshielded, they are extremely dangerous. (Laboratory sources are typically measured in microcuries.) There is no way, as Villa pointed out in his January report, such a source could have been missed. He measured radiation through holes in the shielding, and found none, and said: "Even assuming that the whole horizontal tube is made of lead (10 cm radius), we expected some γ to pass." Thermal energy from gammas does not make any sense.
