"I do not think they have proved it is fully controllable. I did not see them modulate the reaction or turn it on and off repeatedly."
You should go back an review the ICCF-18 Delkalion demo again. Control of the reactor was a major demo objective that was successfully accomplished. On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter Gluck <[email protected]> wrote: > > To remain at the Greeks, this magnetic field story is interpreted as >> an Achilles' Heel of the story - it is NOT! and 20 times more words >> were used for this than for the fact that the Hyperion generates >> controllable >> copious heat. >> > > All functioning cold fusion reactors produce heat. There is nothing > remarkable about that, so we made no remarks. Rossi's reactors produce > copious heat, and it looks pretty much under control. I suppose Defkalion > learned many of their techniques from him. (A court will probably have to > decide how many, someday.) > > I do not think they have proved it is fully controllable. I did not see > them modulate the reaction or turn it on and off repeatedly. > > Many conventional energy sources are not fully controllable. Burning coal > or wood cannot be turned off. You have to let it burn out. Coal and gas > fired generator plants explode from time to time. Portable computer > batteries sometimes catch on fire, as did the ones on the Boeing > Dreamliner. Fission reactors such as the ones at Fukushima cannot be fully > turned off quickly, and they can go badly out of control even after at > SCRAM, as we have seen. So, even if cold fusion is not fully controllable, > it may still have have practical applications. > > - Jed > >
