No what would be great is if proven reliably replicable.
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:33 PM, David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote: > This would be great news if proven accurate. I would rather see the 20 > watts of excess heat being generated with an input of less than 20 watts to > prove that the thing has a good beginning COP before stability issues are > handled. The larger that ratio is, the less flak will be generated by the > skeptics and the closer to a real product the experimenters begin. > > Rossi has a huge head start in his quest for an actual product, but it is > encouraging to see that others are in the running. The fact that others > are nipping at his heels might make him move faster. > > Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> > To: vortex-l <[email protected]> > Sent: Fri, Jul 12, 2013 9:19 pm > Subject: Re: [Vo]:Technova Poster at ICCF 18: excess 20 watts over a week > > 20 W is good! That is a lot of heat for most laboratory-scale > calorimeters. As long as input is below ~100 W it is hard to imagine they > would have difficulty measuring that. > > It is actually easier to measure heat from 10 to 100 W than, say, 1000 > W. I doubt the s/n ratio improves much at 1000 W. > > Depending on the size of the device, and the operating temperature, a > thing like this might be as significant as Rossi's results. Rossi works on > a large scale because he likes to. There is nothing wrong with that. It is > better by far than working at a power level below 0.1 W, where things get > dicey. Rossi's high power levels impress people. But you understand how > science and technology work, you will see that -- > > a ~20 W stable, controlled reaction at a high temperature using common > materials . . . > > . . . is really as impressive as Rossi's. Okay, that 5 conditions, all > of them difficult to meet. Of those 5 stability and control are the most > important. Anyone who achieves them, at any power level easy to measure, > has made a tremendous breakthrough. Rossi certainly has. > > Mizuno may have a similar breakthrough. I hope to upload his paper at > the time of the conference. I hope it will done to his satisfaction and > mine. If not I shall upload the poster, and the paper soon after the > conference. > > - Jed > >
