“Aussie Guy E-Cat” Claims he Has Fleischmann-Pons Effect Devices Working

1) It looks like the air filter in my car but it also looks like an enormous heat sink.
2) Where is the three inches of lead shielding?
3) Rossi isn’t churning these out in his garage, someone had to make over a hundred of the cases and lids for the fat cat and it’s not a trivial task unless he’s stamping them out like an oil pan.
4) It doesn’t look like it could hold a lot of water if we assume the heat sink center block is solid.
5) The lid needs a lip like on an oil pan or it will expand between bolts.
6) It looks like he’s using gasket sealer instead of a gasket, bad idea in the long run but this is just a prototype.

As far as I can tell from a quick scan of Fletcher's writeup (which I read in detail some months back), he mentions the reactor "core" not at all. The 30 liters is the total volume of water pumped into the ecat before it starts to overflow (i.e. the reactor is filled from a "dry" state to "liquid full").

That little box holds almost 8 gallons, that's hard to believe if you compare it to a car's gas tank. It's possible that if you include all the lines it might add up but those E-cats aren't that big and they aren't hollow, at least the one they showed isn't.

I don't recall whether they were allowed access to the interior during this particular test, but in the Oct. 18 "single fat E-cat" test, the E-cat was disassembled in the presence of the witnesses. That visual examination shows that the "core" is nowhere near 25 liters. And in the 18 October test the dimensions of the "core" are given as I stated previously.

Agreed.

Rossi announced that it is easy to refill the E-cat using a cartridge. If that is the case, then what good is the self destruct mechanism? I realize that the nature of a catalyst is that it is not consumed in the reaction but I thought I'd read that the nickel is treated with the catalyst so the catalyst should be in the refill cartridge.

Aussie Guy came to a screeching halt and the people on Vortex or Peak oil are po'd at his scams.

Aussie Guy came to a screeching halt and the people on Vortex or Peak oil are po'd at his scams.

It's worth noting that Aussie Guy, if he really is Greg Watson, has used a "revolutionary new energy" scam to steal over $60 million from gullible investors.

His scam looked remarkably like what Rossi is doing, right down to claiming that he was building robotic factories to produce "millions" of units a year.

My take on your questions:

"1) It looks like the air filter in my car but it also looks like an enormous heat sink."

Yup.

"2) Where is the three inches of lead shielding?

"According to Rossi"...the ultimate "core" (in which resides the nickel nanopowder) is 20 cm by 20 cm by 2cm. The lead shielding consists of 2cm on all "faces", and the heat exchanger is "on top" of all that.

"3) Rossi isn’t churning these out in his garage, someone had to make over a hundred of the cases and lids for the fat cat and it’s not a trivial task unless he’s stamping them out like an oil pan."

This has been one of my major points ever since the 1MW system pictures showed up. A "hugh" amount of work is being done "somewhere" to put all this stuff together.

"4) It doesn’t look like it could hold a lot of water if we assume the heat sink center block is solid."

See #1. There's probably quite a bit of volume between those heat-sink fins, which are on both top AND bottom of the "core".

"5) The lid needs a lip like on an oil pan or it will expand between bolts."

I hadn't noticed this detail.

"6) It looks like he’s using gasket sealer instead of a gasket, bad idea in the long run but this is just a prototype."

Which prototype is probably assembled/disassembled multiple times. I think this is an argument "against" using a gasket sealer (or at least one that "sets up" like silicones do). He may be using a "grease" type that doesn't "cure" after assembly just for that reason.

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