2012: The Year of Cold Fusion?

Forbes ^ | 12/31/2011 | Mark Gibbs

[Kevmo]

2012: The Year of Cold Fusion?


If this topic is new to you, the really short summary is that the E-Cat is a Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) or “cold fusion” device that generates large amounts of heat for a miniscule cost.

I first wrote about the E-Cat and its implications in my Backspin column in Network World back in October and then again a couple of weeks later here in my Forbes Technobable blog. Since then I have covered various aspects of the topic ... here’s the list:

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Why so many postings on this topic? Simple … as I pointed out at some length in the first columns, should Rossi’s E-Cat work as claimed, it will transform the world making oil, coal, and conventional nuclear power along with wind and solar power obsolete as energy sources.

Alas,... the question of whether the E-Cat really works remains unproven because over the last year the E-Cat’s inventor, Andrea Rossi, has given a number of impressive but inconclusive demonstrations. These were inconclusive because they weren’t run in such a way as to remove doubt about what’s really going on and whether more energy was being generated by the E-Cat than was being put into it.

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If the whole thing is a fraud it’s going to be one of the greatest in modern times. If it’s not, 2012 is going to be the year when everything changes.

[muawiyah]

As but a chil' many decades back I read that fusion power would be a reality within 30 years ~ that date has continued to come and go and so NOTHING.

I think it's a scam to soak governments for the care and upkeep of physicists who have nothing to do.

Did I say "I think it's a scam" ~ it really is a scam ~ costs billions a year for NOTHING.

[muawiyah]

Kleiner Perkins is mixed up with the Algore. The Algore is mixed up with DOE. DOE is mixed up with Rossi's friends. Rossi is mixed up with his own friends.

Kleiner Perkins invests, and advises others regarding investments in similar ventures.

Is there some reason you would think Kleiner Perkins wouldn't be involved with Rossi in some way?

Did you check with The Algore on this?

[Vaquero]

the suns corona is only there because of the heat and pressure of the dense core...

[muawiyah]

You know that's just a theory don't you? Look up these three fellows: A. Widom, Y. N. Srivastava, L. Larsen. They have a different theory. Notice the use of the term "electro-weak reactions".

You can ignore the various LENR references to their work if you want. This particular theory is in the background of NASA's interest in LENR ~