Duplicating Rossi's setup is not worthwhile. If he is not a fraud it
is likely Rossi has something extraordinary. If there is a
reasonable chance of actually duplicating that, or something similar,
then that is worthwhile. However success along those lines,
developing a commercial quality LENR reactor without extensive
research and good facilities is highly unlikely - even less likely
than developing transistor technology in 1930 I would guess.
The notion that Rossi's device is self delusion has looked to me less
and less likely day by day.
That leaves fraud as the remaining possibility to consider when
designing such a test. Such a test is ridiculous. Of course the
device can be faked, by numerous means.
Despite the fact Rossi removed the outer cover on the E-cat, no one
was permitted to see inside the 30x30x30 cm inner box, or the reactor
box(es) inside the inner box. Four water tight conduits lead from
the outside of the outer box to the inside of the inner box.
Anything can be inside the inner box. No one has seen the inside of
that box. The inner box has a volume of 27 liters. It can be water
tight.
What can be put inside the inner box? Lots of chemical things of
course.
The simplest might be to use a lithium battery, perhaps a Lithium
Thionyl Chloride battery.
http://www.allaboutbatteries.com/Battery-Energy.html
"The specifications for Lithium Thionyl Chloride are $1.16 per watt-
hour, 700 watts/kg, 2,000,000 Joules/kg, and 1100 watt-hours per
liter. For more information of Lithium Thionyl Chloride please
contact Tadiran Batteries."
The total kWh output produced by the 6 Oct 2011 E-cat was about 27
kWh. See:
http://www.mtaonline.net/%7Ehheffner/Rossi6Oct2011noBias.pdf
Net output was about 18 kWh.
At 1100 wh/liter that is 29.7 kWh capacity in the 27 liter inner box.
That leaves a lot of room for electronic control devices. Might need
to route some of the cold water input so as to cool the battery.
Also, the battery could be pressurized to prevent boiling. I don't
think this was actually done because in one photo, after some
processing, I could make out the water entry port on the inside of
the box. Cool water I think flows under the box through a thin gap,
and along the sides, mostly under the flanges that bolt together the
top and bottom halves of the 27 liter inner box. I suspect it sits
slightly elevated on a few short legs, possibly bolts which penetrate
the bottom of the box, but which are sealed.
At 2 MJ/kg, or 00.56 kWH/kg, the 29.7 kWh represents 53 kg, right
about what is needed inside the inner box to be credible.
There are many ways to make a fake that can replicate the public
tests Rossi has performed. Actually building one doe not prove very
much. Better to to devote the time to experimenting with stuff that
might actually work.
For some specific examples of stuff that might actually work, see the
posts and associated threads here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg44662.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg57397.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg21943.html
It might just be as simple as cycling the temperature about the Curie
point in a mu-metal filament in high pressure hydrogen gas under the
influence of an intense and slowly rotating magnetic field.
I might be as simple as loading powdered zeolites with a mu-metal
like compound and stimulating with microwaves, or high intensity laser.
Despite the odds, there is a tiny possibility a useful and simple
solution is available.
Better to spend time seeking that than debating the ridiculous. The
odds of success may be small, but the payoff is vastly greater.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
