In our lab, we're using flagpoles! They're more better than ice cubes!
Posted on 12/06/2011 6:22:41 AM PST by Johnny B.
This claim is made for two reasons:
(Excerpt) Read more at scienceblogs.com ...
Great post, Johnny B. I’d like to see a rebuttal from the usual suspects...might take them awhile.
It's also worth noting that the authors, Dr. Ethan Siegel and Dr. Peter Thieberger have really solid credentials. No doubt the fanbois will declare that they are just "deniers" and therefore should be ignored.
The e-Cat shills will not be happy....
The electrical schematic in the article was intriguing. The fact that Rossi left the genset running during the experiment was incredibly damning, in my mind. This article may explain why Rossi did that.
In our lab, we're using flagpoles! They're more better than ice cubes!
The electrical schematic in the article was intriguing. The fact that Rossi left the genset running during the experiment was incredibly damning, in my mind. This article may explain why Rossi did that.I'm confident that when the this scam is finally revealed, we'll all be surprised at just how simple the tricks were. There is no need for any complex or revolutionary process to produce the results we've seen. Just a few simple tricks, along with a bunch of people who are willing to give Rossi the benefit of the doubt.
Just more seagull squawking. /s
>>...I’m confident that when the this scam is finally revealed, we’ll all be surprised at just how simple the tricks were...<<
Ditto! I’m about %95 convinced it is a scam, pure and simple. However, if there is some corp who wants to risk a spare 100 million or so on a %5 chance it is legit, who am I to argue?
I’ve always had a purely unsubstantiated, ridiculous, nagging, gut feeling that the “next big thing” in energy production would be discovered purely by accident during entirely unrelated research and might not even be recognized until well after the fact. But I don’t think the e-Cat is “it”.
However it's similar to claims that a bumblebee can't fly. LENR experiments - other than Rossi's - do produce results that are not explainable by the current knowledge. The bumblebee flies. So perhaps more study is required?
I don't know if Rossi is a genius or a charlatan. I don't want to judge him. His work will judge him much better. I want him to continue doing whatever he is doing, and I want his machine to speak for itself. As one of the comments at the blog says, Rossi hasn't cost us even a cent, so why to bother?
He says he has buyers, and the buyers are happy. Good for them. Some say this buyer is a straw one. Fine, I don't care about theatrics. As soon as one real buyer buys the thing and it doesn't work the secret will be out.
Way back when I was a kid. Way back then we knew nothing of Freudian actions no one ever licked a flagpole, almost always the gullible doofus left the tongue skin on a metal mail box.
How could we have known we were homophobes?
Sad, so sad!
Caddis the Elder
I tend to agree with your entire post.
You know Johnny, I’ve read a lot of posts about the e-cat, and there are those that insist it’s a fraud. Perhaps it is, but it would not be as easy to fake as people on these threads suggest.
For instance, the argument that the diesel gen-set was running during the test. Perhaps many here have not been around one, but you can tell when the load has been switched off and on. You can hear it. You can see it in the exhaust. Kind of like when an 18 wheeler starts up a steep grade. Black smoke out the exhaust...
Kind of like when you plug your power saw into your Honda Generator, or turn the AC on in your motor home when it’s running on the generator. You hear it when the load is connected and disconnected. It would be obvious.
No, if you wanted to fake it you would not use a gen-set, you would power it from the mains...
Or was the whole thing faked, with natural copper powder added to natural nickel powder and passed off as "products" of the reaction? The fact that the "final sample" contained both the appropriate splits of nickel and the 70-30 split of copper-63 to copper-65 found in nature seems very suspicious as well.
David Copperfield making the Statue of Liberty disappear suggests new physics as well.
In fact, that might even be the reason they had to test at half power; maybe they couldn't get a generator in the correct capacity to run the E-cat at supposed full power.
Yes, the magic cord schematic was hilarious. Was it UL approved? /sar
That's a myth.
I’ve read a lot of posts about the e-cat, and there are those that insist it’s a fraud. Perhaps it is, but it would not be as easy to fake as people suggest.
For instance, the argument that the diesel gen-set was running during the test. Perhaps many here have not been around one, but you can tell when the load has been switched off and on. You can hear it. You can see it in the exhaust. Kind of like when an 18 wheeler starts up a steep grade. Black smoke out the exhaust...
Kind of like when you plug your power saw into your Honda Generator, or turn the AC on in your motor home when it’s running on the generator. You hear it when the load is connected and disconnected. It would be obvious.
No, if you wanted to fake it you would not use a gen-set, you would power it from the mains...
Your post:
...I’ve read a lot of posts about the e-cat, and there are those that insist it’s a fraud. Perhaps it is, but it would not be as easy to fake as people suggest.
For instance, the argument that the diesel gen-set was running during the test. Perhaps many here have not been around one, but you can tell when the load has been switched off and on. You can hear it. You can see it in the exhaust. Kind of like when an 18 wheeler starts up a steep grade. Black smoke out the exhaust...
Kind of like when you plug your power saw into your Honda Generator, or turn the AC on in your motor home when it’s running on the generator. You hear it when the load is connected and disconnected. It would be obvious.
No, if you wanted to fake it you would not use a gen-set, you would power it from the mains...
Either you are Gene or you plagiarized his post.
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