Lately Rossi has been saying a home version of the Ecat is years away although he doesn't really say why.
Harry Well, for the sake of tying up loose ends, one reason why - could be because the unit will not start without a "probability field" enhancement. And such an enhancement might be problematic for home use. This enhancer is usually a radioactive isotope. This technique goes back a long way in LENR - and by name, all the way back to the first issue of Infinite Energy See I.E. # 1, p. 46, "Cold Fusion in a 'Ying Cell' and Probability Enhancement by Boson Stimulation," by Nelson Ying and Charles W. Shults III. They found a small radioactive source increased the reaction rate by many orders of magnitude - way, way beyond its own physical contribution. This effect was seen infamously in a controversial technique which Rusi Taleyarkhan used to increase the neutron yield in cavitation experiments - which involved "seeding" the reactor with a tiny secondary source of radiation which would create a few neutrons on its own - but thousands of times more were triggered by the establishment of what can be called an enhanced QM probability field. There was no duplicity - this was planned and explicit. However, RT did not mention his underlying rationale for doing it, other than that it worked: and to his great detriment... since the seeding technique became a focal point of contention from bloodthirsty critics - when in fact, it had a bona fide history in LENR. Did not Dennis Cravens mention recently that he also seeds his experiments with a tiny amount of thorium? Anyway, the probability-field is not a simple concept, since it is not about a particular kind of reaction, but involves "decoherence" and "quantum entanglement" and arcane types of information loopbacks.
