On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
My point was a valid one. It's that for a regular ICE you need a secondary > source of power to drive the spark plugs (where in a diesel engine you do > not after the engine gets going). > Just to clarify the point (for others), in an ICE, there is mechanical energy that can easily be converted into electricity to recharge the battery. In Rossi's device, assuming it is driven by joule heating (as I have no reason to doubt), you would have to capture the heat coming from the device and figure a way to route it back to the secondary source of power (analogous to the battery in the ICE). As we all know, this is not so easy to do, so while the ICE is a good analogy, in that it demonstrates why a secondary source of power might be necessary, the analogy only goes so far, in that it is harder in Rossi's case to recapture the heat and channel it back into the secondary source. I think this is all pretty obvious to anyone who has given some thought to the matter and who is seeking after truth. I just wanted to tie off one or two loose ends. Eric
