Brad Lowe <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2. Unable to extract the energy in a useful way > 3. Demonstrates self-running electric and heat generator > . . . > > It seems like we have been stuck at state #2. Rossi claims he is working > hard on #3 and getting "close". > I think the problem with #2 is that the reactors tend to go out of control. They melt. They may explode. This situation is common with cutting edge technology. Especially with R&D being done on a shoestring. Rudolf Diesel had similar problems with his prototype diesel engines, which nearly killed him on several occasions. Mizuno's cell exploded, and other ones before that were very unstable. (The university ordered him to stop the research after the explosion, which came close to killing him and an observer.) I think Ohmori may have given himself cancer from his cells, the way Madam Curie did. The Wright brothers nearly killed themselves in crashes many times, and finally did kill one of their first passengers in September 1908. I doubt that Rossi, working on his own, will tame this technology. My guess is that task would take the combined abilities of many skilled scientists and engineers in many different companies. There was never the slightest chance the Wrights would develop a practical, safe airplane on their own. Their final machines in 1910 were deathtraps. People like Sikorsky were beginning to develop more practical airplanes by that time. Sikorsky had an astounding ability to make practical machines. He was far better than the Wrights at that task. Look at the photo of his 1914 machine here: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJthewrightb.pdf It carried 16 passengers and flew for 6 hours 33 minutes. Astounding! The early transistors were not dangerous, because they were small, low powered devices. But they remained highly unreliable and irreproducible for many years, despite the best efforts of hundreds of skilled physicists and engineers. - Jed
