The Political Hot Potato of Cold Fusion

[Brooklyn Red Leg]

Cold fusion is bullshit. Period. Funny thing is that Zeta-Pinch Fusion is real (we see it every day when we look at the Sun).

 

[Xenophage]

This is a bunch of baloney.

 

[Kelly.]

some people wont believe that overunity is possible until they are shown it is possible.

the reason these units arent being send around for testing is because the inventor wants to let the market decide. smells like confidence to me
i, for one, would love to buy one of these and test it out, as i do believe overunity is possible.


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is energy created out of mass, or is mass created out of energy?

 

[Corto_Maltese]

Gerald Celente wrote about this in the winter issue of trends journal. He pointed to many experiments in this field and also in similar areas. He calls this the great gamechanger; if an alternative comes that solves all the energy problems, then the worldwide collapse and world war could be avoided. He also adviced though to look at the claims critical and see with your own eyes that the energy source really works.

 

[RonPaulIsGreat]

Ron Paul is no scientist, he really doesn't have much business endorsing technological paths. And it wouldn't really matter anymore, a machine such as described, would be worth trillions just for the patent rights. There is no need to promote the thing other than to demonstrate it repeatedly and openly, and supply the plans of constructing the device independently (They'd own the patents). IF that were done, it doesn't need "promoted", every single business on the planet would be willing to shove money into owning a slice of that patent, and if it can actually be made in a practical sense, well it would be available to anyone with the cash within 2 years.

I mean seriously, a machine such as that, if real, would mean, over the course of a decade or so, shipping costs would plummet, food costs would plummet, construction costs would plummet, electricity costs would plummet, heating, cooling cost plummet, Desalination of vast amount of water and therefore being capable of irrigating where ever you wanted would be possible. Space Flight would become much more practical. The list is as long as every single thing we use today.

Anyway, if the thing actually works, Ron Paul doesn't need to promote it, no one needs to promote it, they just need to demonstrate the unit, and release the plans, and they will be worth more than the current top 50 richest people combined, that is if it works as stated.

 

[Perry]

It's not a "hot potato" because it's science fiction. If it were everyone would be talking about it lol...

Let's talk about this again in another 100 years.

 

[Elwar]

Ron Paul has already endorsed this technology if it works.

And by "endorsed" I mean, he's for allowing the market to determine the best technology out there.

 

[Kelly.]

I mean seriously, a machine such as that, if real, would mean, over the course of a decade or so, shipping costs would plummet, food costs would plummet, construction costs would plummet, electricity costs would plummet, heating, cooling cost plummet, Desalination of vast amount of water and therefore being capable of irrigating where ever you wanted would be possible. Space Flight would become much more practical. The list is as long as every single thing we use today.

this is the reason most people write this sorta stuff off automatically, because most cant fathom it happening.

if 50 years ago, i would have told you that in 50 years, you would be able to use a device no bigger then a pack of cigarettes, type in a code and talk to anyone else on the planet, with no wires attached, you would say i was crazy. today we call that device a cell phone, and oh yeah, most households have 1-3 such devices.

my point is, most of what we consider "technologically advanced" hasnt been around for more then 125 years..... so really anything is possible.

 

[Zippyjuan]

The "tests" so far have been comprised of the inventor turning on the machine and people watching it run. They were not allowed to see any of the internal workings and see what was actually going on. This was not any scientific testing conducted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Catalyzer

Evaluation of the deviceThe mechanism by which the Energy Catalyzer generates excess energy – if it does so – is not known. Rossi says in his patent [21] that this is a fusion process involving nickel and hydrogen, forming copper. This fusion reaction should, under the assumption that the branching ratio is the same under the conditions of the E-Cat process as it is for the much higher energies involved in standard nuclear studies, generate substantial amounts of gamma radiation, both directly and as the result of electron-positron annihilation. However, none was detected during a public demonstration of their device in January 2011, so that the branching-ratio hypothesis is inconsistent with observed experimental results. Professor Peter L. Hagelstein at MIT has been exploring an alternative explanation based on a wave (rather than particle) viewpoint. In this way of looking at low-energy nuclear reactions, one looks at "resonance" in the frequency domain rather than "collisions", and there does not seem to be any reason to expect high-energy phenomena such as gamma rays and neutron emission to occur. [reference needed]

In 2008, Rossi's patent application received an unfavorable preliminary report on patentability,[9] citing serious deficiencies in both the description of the device and in the evidence provided to support its feasibility. The patent application was published on October 15, 2009.[21] A subsequent patent application was approved in April 2011.[10]

Rossi and Focardi have been unable to publish their work in a peer-reviewed scientific journal,[44] instead presenting their work in Rossi's self-published blog titled the Journal of Nuclear Physics. Related work by Forcardi[7] has been published in the journal Il Nuovo Cimento A.