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Andrea Rossi's E-Cat cold fusion system has it's first sucessful 1KW test today
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XIRUSPHERE
In Bacon We Trust
#1 - 2011-10-29 17:16:50 UTC
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-10/29/rossi-success

This test was done by the mysterious US backers of this project today so it may actually be panning out rather than more hype, here's to hoping it's legit and spurns not only a new path to clean and abundant energy but also further research into our understanding of the standard model.

It's a very big deal to have this on wired and some are speculating that the US backer for this may in fact be Google. Time will tell.

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Morganta
The Greater Goon
#2 - 2011-10-29 17:22:33 UTC
XIRUSPHERE wrote:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-10/29/rossi-success

This test was done by the mysterious US backers of this project today so it may actually be panning out rather than more hype, here's to hoping it's legit and spurns not only a new path to clean and abundant energy but also further research into our understanding of the standard model.

It's a very big deal to have this on wired and some are speculating that the US backer for this may in fact be Google. Time will tell.


oh boy, time again for the "once a decade" cold fusion scam?
XIRUSPHERE
In Bacon We Trust
#3 - 2011-10-29 17:28:22 UTC
Morganta wrote:
XIRUSPHERE wrote:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-10/29/rossi-success

This test was done by the mysterious US backers of this project today so it may actually be panning out rather than more hype, here's to hoping it's legit and spurns not only a new path to clean and abundant energy but also further research into our understanding of the standard model.

It's a very big deal to have this on wired and some are speculating that the US backer for this may in fact be Google. Time will tell.


oh boy, time again for the "once a decade" cold fusion scam?


Yeah it's hard not to take it with a mountain sized grain of salt, but here's to hoping.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
Adunh Slavy
#4 - 2011-10-29 19:03:05 UTC
From the Article wrote:

For a start, the US customer remains anonymous. In other words, a group of unknown, unverifiable people carried out tests which cannot be checked.

Secondly, observers apart from the customer were only allowed to view the test for a few minutes at a time and during the entire test the E-Cat remained connected to a power supply by a cable. The external power was supposedly turned off; as a demonstration it would have been more impressive for the reactor in its shipping container to be visibly disconnected while operating.


... meh

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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2011-10-29 19:43:29 UTC
XIRUSPHERE wrote:
Morganta wrote:
XIRUSPHERE wrote:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-10/29/rossi-success

This test was done by the mysterious US backers of this project today so it may actually be panning out rather than more hype, here's to hoping it's legit and spurns not only a new path to clean and abundant energy but also further research into our understanding of the standard model.

It's a very big deal to have this on wired and some are speculating that the US backer for this may in fact be Google. Time will tell.


oh boy, time again for the "once a decade" cold fusion scam?


Yeah it's hard not to take it with a mountain sized grain of salt, but here's to hoping.


That's a big grain of salt! Time for margaritas!!!! Big smile

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Headerman
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2011-10-29 20:36:56 UTC
Biggest load of BS around, bar none.

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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#7 - 2011-10-29 21:15:42 UTC
Quote:
Secondly, observers apart from the customer were only allowed to view the test for a few minutes at a time and during the entire test the E-Cat remained connected to a power supply by a cable.


Yeah, that's just for show. Ignore that

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Headerman
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2011-10-29 21:48:47 UTC
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:
Quote:
Secondly, observers apart from the customer were only allowed to view the test for a few minutes at a time and during the entire test the E-Cat remained connected to a power supply by a cable.


Yeah, that's just for show. Ignore that


No it isn't, it's feeding power BACK into the grid!

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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2011-10-29 22:36:24 UTC
Headerman wrote:
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:
Quote:
Secondly, observers apart from the customer were only allowed to view the test for a few minutes at a time and during the entire test the E-Cat remained connected to a power supply by a cable.


Yeah, that's just for show. Ignore that


No it isn't, it's feeding power BACK into the grid!


Of course! This is the first step to renewing the resource of power!

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Alara IonStorm
#10 - 2011-10-29 22:42:52 UTC
Can I Hug it without Dying?

If so is it cuddly?
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#11 - 2011-10-29 23:41:43 UTC
Alara IonStorm wrote:
Can I Hug it without Dying?

If so is it cuddly?


Cold fusion systems do not work that way!!!

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Myxx
The Scope
#12 - 2011-10-30 00:31:58 UTC
99 percent chance that its a scam. proof or stfu, as they say.
Taedrin
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#13 - 2011-10-30 16:12:12 UTC
If it isn't peer reviewed, then it isn't a verifiable fact. As the article mentioned, it's an unknown entity making unverifiable claims.
Louis deGuerre
The Dark Tribe
Minmatar Fleet Alliance
#14 - 2011-10-30 23:28:47 UTC
I prefer my fusion hot.
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#15 - 2011-10-30 23:36:54 UTC
Myxx wrote:
99 percent chance that its a scam. proof or stfu, as they say.


We are the 99%!

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Kitaywa
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#16 - 2011-10-30 23:50:18 UTC
I'm still waiting for Plunderbunny's Margaritas.

Cherry Nobyl
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#17 - 2011-10-31 00:01:59 UTC
having been in high school way back in the late 80's when this was first proposed by flieschman and pons it piqued my interest and made me beg my physics prof to help me with some tests that had some curious results. nothing substansively conclusive, but curious enough.

here's my beef with the shipping container reactor: they supposedly generated 470kilowatts of heat. this breaks down to approx 4700 100watt bulbs on at the same time generating heat (2% light/98% heat; yes, this is very basic comparison for thought experiment purposes only).

when was the last time you saw anything plastic, like the buckets used to hold water, survive that much heat for longer than a few minutes? how much steam would have been boiled off the water within the container and placed under pressure within this system as designed? what was the representative neutron flow from the fusion process?

way to many holes to be even remotely considered confirmed as anything other than a large con. the bigger the lie, the easier it tends to be to swallow.
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#18 - 2011-10-31 00:36:59 UTC
Kitaywa wrote:
I'm still waiting for Plunderbunny's Margaritas.



I'm still waiting for my mountain size grain of salt

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XIRUSPHERE
In Bacon We Trust
#19 - 2011-10-31 00:48:44 UTC
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:
Kitaywa wrote:
I'm still waiting for Plunderbunny's Margaritas.



I'm still waiting for my mountain size grain of salt


Im working on it, then we can pine for the margarita fjords together.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.