I should add – a secondary tragedy in all of this is that this group - vortex - is a great accumulation of diverse talent from many fields. It may be overly weighted towards computer nerds/programmers/software engineers and so on, but all are way above average, compared to other forums. We tend to chase away the stagnant thinkers.
And most of the contributors are here for the simple reason ---because they
have a social conscience--- and want to find a workable solution to the
greatest problem facing humanity – which is finding an acceptable energy
source for the coming centuries.
Rossi could benefit from this resource– without losing much in return, other
than an ego hit. But of course, he will not. Too bad.
From: Alan
> This is a physical impossibility.
You no longer believe ANY Cold Fusion
results? No "miracles"?
Alan, I keep having to clarify that I am not a skeptic of
LENR. It does happen with Ni-H. Time and again, I bring up Thermacore etc.
as a convincing example of gain in the range of COP 1.5. Rossi can get to
that level almost assuredly.
Thus I am sure Rossi may be seeing gain, and hopefully it is
an improvement over Thermacore. I am looking for huge improvement but not
seeing it in this latest report.
The question – 20 years later is this. Can the basic Ni-H
reaction which was seen for a year of operation at Thermacore, be made more
robust both in temperature and reliability.
> The sample was compromised.
Which does not mean that there is no gain - but merely that
Rossi is trying to be cleaver by hiding the source of gain as “ash”.
It is most likely Ni-62 which he added to the reactor as a
relatively pure isotope, which he purchased. The lithium could be a red
herring. In short, it is very easy to cover up real breakthrough with
information that buys time for the inventor to try to figure out what is
really going on.
Jones
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