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To: Red Badger
You've chosen to exclude the independent test reported last October?

And Alexander Parkhomov's replication experiments?

Why?

15 posted on 08/25/2015 10:59:07 AM PDT by AZLiberty (Give the Arizona wild horses cuddly names, like "Cecil".)
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To: AZLiberty

According to the Wikipedia article on the E-Cat, Rossi intervened during the test of October 2014 during fueling, tart-up and removal of spent ash fuel. could be some shenanigans going on:

In October 2014 a non-peer-reviewed paper by the same authors as the May 2013 report describes results from evaluations in March 2014 of an upgraded version of the E-Cat which runs at higher temperatures. Unlike previous demonstrations, the test was carried out with monitoring equipment and in a laboratory not supplied by Rossi, and was run over an extended duration (32 days).[66] However, as with the previous report, the authors were not in full control of the process; Rossi intervened during the insertion of the fuel charge, start up of the reactor, shut down of the reactor, and extraction of the spent fuel. Overall, the total excess heat measured was calculated to be well beyond that possible by any conventional, non-nuclear source. In this report, they present analyses of samples of spent fuel, concluding from the isotopes found that “nuclear reactions are therefore indicated to be present in the run process, which however is hard to reconcile with the fact that no radioactivity was detected outside the reactor during the run.” Following fuel and ash isotopic analysis, the authors speculate that isotopes of especially nickel and lithium being part of the reaction, in particular transmutation of 58Ni and 60Ni to 62Ni, and from 7Li to 6Li through some unknown process.

But, that doesn’t mean I am not supportive, just skeptical until a full independent test is accomplished.......................


17 posted on 08/25/2015 11:06:39 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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