post #0 guys (no girls here. MEN are ruining the world, so they should be made responsible to do something god. But fun aside.)
I'm trying to start a thread concentrating on the construction of an Open-Source-LENR-reactor. The aim is to build a demonstration reactor, or at least collect relevant data and methods, for what has to be done. This seems to be a step back wrt to hoping that Rossi or DGT or whoever will do the magic of offering a commercial device soon, which does not have exactly zero probability, but is also not -to my opinion- above the 50%-level. As Jed remarked, there is still a considerable -unresolved- safety-issue. The arguments, which have been brought up, that practice trumps theory, have some charm, but do not hold upon further scrutiny. Devices applied in the multimillions have to be inherently safe, and I cannot imagine that a device that delivers considerable power, can go into practice without a generally accepted theory of how the device works. So this is a multistep-process. Eg UL would be ill-advised to test an e-cat in a black-box-manner and declare it inherently save, if in the inside is something which eventually could explode in 1 ppm of cases. Rossi as often, when riding his 'white horse' is too optimistic on that. (if he ever has a point) (the one institution which is not bothered by that, is the military. So there is a good argument for the suspicion, that -if any- a military organization is his customer, and not the broad public.) ------------------ To summarize: The idea would be, to conceptualize a reactor ON THE BASIS OF WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN, which can be readily reproduced by anybody willing to spend say 10k$. This would scale down a bit by division of labor. (Btw, the raspberry computer is a good recent example for the power of rightly funneled open-source. Compare this with the repeated failures of the OLPC/MIT/Negroponte initiative, which simply missed the point. Negroponte seems to be a slow learner.) ----------------- In post#1 I try to distill some relevant points from Brian Ahern's design. Comments+additions+criticisms of course are very welcome. But please, can we concentrate in this thread on relevant criticism, material choices, methods choices, relevant theory-bits . So lets start. All the best Guenter ________________________________
