The biggest problem with the early P&F replication attempts was the lack of
respect given to the reactants. People trying to replicate did not understand
that it was a surface phenomenon. They did not understand that the cathode
could be easily poisoned. They did not understand that the surface structures
mattered at a microscopic level. They only knew that if one of the cathodes in
a batch failed to produce excess heat, then the whole batch would.
Rossi's claims are contrary to all before, though. He is claiming repeatable,
controlled excesses, so far above the noise level as to be unmistakable. So:
Really, the early Rossi-reactor is simple enough for an amateur to duplicate.
It's the processing of the nickel, and the "secret sauce" that's the rub.
Anyone can put together his early reactors. Sure, his new ones are larger and
may seem more complicated, but he claimed MUCH higher COPs with the early ones
(Up to 200x!!!).
All a garage hobby-tech needs is the pre-sealed cylinder, with the
properly-formed nickel, hydrogen, and catalyst pre-loaded, and the rest is a
cake-walk.
Wrapping a heating element, a bit of waterproofing, coolant-in, coolant-out.
It's easy to experiment with assorted voltages, waveforms, frequencies, etc.
-- 3mm of lead shielding, right? Heck, it looks like a VHF/UHF radio, opened
up, fed into a linear, would do just fine as a variable RFG for all of the
specified frequency range. Sure, you'll burn up a lot of finals in the process
due to the VSWR (depending on the coupling method), but just keep lots of
extras on-hand.
Place an empty cylinder inside the coil for some "dry runs", to ensure that
your process is in place, and then substitute the live cylinder. Find the
"sweet spot" where "P_out >> P_in" by varying coil and RFG.
Then call up MaryYugo, and invite her to dinner and a show. Show her it works,
and serve up some crow.
Of course, this is under the assumption that:
A) there really is a "secret sauce" that produces high overunity
and 2) The layman could really get his hands on some.
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BTW, Giovanni:
Gravitational waves are theoretically fascinating. Where do you stand on the
underlying gravitational question? If the sun were to be plucked completely
from existance right now, would the Earth continue on a curved trajectory for
the next 8 minutes (or more), or immediately careen off course? Even if there
are no GW, and we are simply traveling in a straight line through warped
space-time, how long would it take space-time to un-warp in the sudden absence
of the causal body?
