[NewinTexsas]

You don't necessarily need to understand the details. You need to put gamma, X-ray, and neutron detectors around it and see if they detect anything. Keep it up for a month. If nothing, then you can have at least some small degree of confidence that it's not emitting dangerous radiation.

He says the shielding stops the rays. He is going to have to transport it as a radioactive device.

[Johnny B.]

He says the shielding stops the rays. He is going to have to transport it as a radioactive device.

That's an interesting point. If current theory is correct, then the amount of shielding he used is totally inadequate.

If current theory is wrong, then we have no idea what Rossi's device is capable of doing. Maybe if you wire something up backwards it will blow up, taking an entire city with it. Rossi can't claim that it's safe if he can't explain how it operates.

Of course, if the water is being heated by a known but hidden electrical or chemical reaction, then the E-Cat is no more dangerous than a "normal" large boiler along with any danger unique to how he's faking his demos.

There were several people on the vortex email list who were genuinely concerned that the E-Cat (regardless of what else it was) was a poorly-designed boiler and that it might explode during the demonstration. Fortunately, it didn't actually come anywhere near to its rated power level, and could have actually produced as little as 70KW of power, based on Rossi's own data.

[PapaBear3625]

He says the shielding stops the rays. He is going to have to transport it as a radioactive device.

Radioactive: Emitting energy waves due to decaying atomic nuclei.

If it does not contain materials that spontaneously fission, then it is not a radioactive device. If it only emits high-energy photons when turned on, then it is no more a radioactive device than an x-ray machine is.

[Free Vulcan]

So then you’re saying it works and it’s not a fraud?