From: Eric Walker
Alain Sepeda wrote: I don't know if it is real, but sure a negative retro-action is needed, and that it is done through electricity is a good point. If the "mouse" provides active cooling, how can it have a COP in excess of 1, as has been mentioned in comments elsewhere? Have I misunderstood something about COP? Although this confusion seems to be language based (a Rossi-ism) there is particular interest in getting the story correct now – which interest is based on past results in the context of the negative energy anomaly which was documented by Ahern - and included in the EPRI report or his work. With a few of the specialty alloys Ahern tested, notably titanium based IIRC - adding electrical energy produced anomalous net cooling over time. That’s right, it produced real NET endotherm and not a splitting of hot and cold streams so that one appeared to be cold at the expense of the other. IOW - this was NOT a magneto caloric effect and or other known effect. Imagine something like a closed system in which 100 watts of electricity is input but only 75 watts of NET heat is being released from all sources and no heat was stored. A net of 25 watts of real power “seems to disappear” from 3-space and this is continuous for an extended time frame (not a phase-change or recalescence effect). Since this was a real documented negative energy anomaly, in the semantic sense, then it could be said that if COP measures the divergence of input from output according to standard thermal efficiency of 100%, then the result could be called a “COP greater than one in negative energy”. I do not think this is what Rossi is talking about, however, but who knows? The guy may be a greater genius than anyone suspects.
