Jones, I agree with your conclusion about Rossi. However, tritium is
not his only problem. His patent will probably not reveal how the Ni
can be treated to make it active. Simply adding Ni62 is obviously not
the only thing he does to the Ni. Without the ability to replicate the
patent by a "person skilled in the art", it is worthless.
I suspect Rossi does not care about the patent because he intends to
keep this a trade secret. The Ni62 is only a distraction. I suspect he
expects to use the patent to send researches on a wild goose chase and
then use legal distractions when this does not work. He is in an
untenable situation. He has no idea how or why the effect works, yet
he can make extra energy. He needs to sell the device while pretending
he understands how it functions. The patent helps him pursued people
that he knows what he is doing - for awhile. He hopes that when the
truth be known, he is rich enough to fight the challenge. Meanwhile,
he is bringing useful attention to the field, which ironically will
encourage people to find his error that much sooner. I would hate to
be in his shoes.
Ed Storms
On Jun 2, 2013, at 2:35 PM, Jones Beene wrote:
Let me say that almost everyone concerned, other than Andrea Rossi
himself - would be delighted if tritium had been found in the spent
fuel of the HotCat. If tritium were found in proportion to thermal
gain - this would explain the mechanism in accordance with Ed
Storm’s theory – and not only that: the ash would become a valuable
by-product as well. It would make everything clearer and pave the
road to commercialization.
However, aside from that - the best reason to think that that Rossi
has it right this time, and has made a major breakthrough with the
HotCat relates to his bombshell patent change to “bet the farm” on
Ni-62.
This comes into the tritium discussion through the back door, in a
perverse way. There is no obvious reason why tritium would have any
connection to Ni-62. It does not. Consequently, if tritium were
proved to be responsible for the gain via proton fusion, then it
would also indicate that Rossi “lost the farm,” on his bet, since he
would have little IP protection.
I apologize to Ed for coming-off as unnecessarily derogatory of his
theory as applied to Rossi’s results, but it should be clear to all
concerned that if Ed is correct, Andrea loses almost everything in
the race to market by holding a worthless patent. Most of us are
interesting in finding the scientific truth – regardless of who wins
the pot-of-gold; but if tritium turns up, Rossi is toast in more
ways than one, and there seems to be a bit of unfairness there.
There are very different implications for framing a valid theory
based around the one isotope. This starts with the realization that
Rossi (possibly at the insistence of Focardi) did perform experiment
with all of the various nickel isotopes, and out of that effort he
is now convinced that he has found the one which is responsible: the
smoking gun. This opens up a new avenue for understanding which may
be more difficult, but not impossible to navigate.
Maybe Rossi deserves some kind of penalty for his antics, but in the
‘big picture’ it also looks like he may have come around at the
perfect time to revive a languishing technology… perhaps making the
next “age of man” the Nickel Age… after all he is…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=L-4zfsy6rsM
Hope that is not overly dramatic… and … yes, there is the little
problem of “not yet proved”… but if it arrives soon, Rossi may
insist that we start the Calendar over next January and call 2014
the year 1 AR…
Jones
