Posted on 07/02/2013 8:41:18 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog
Heh....even his major supporters can agree with THAT.But I think a lot of it is deliberate, on the order of ".....confusion to your enemies....". In this case, "enemies" being potential or actual competitors.
Nice zinger.
Rossi denied last September that the key reaction was nickel changing into copper. He said that may happen in small quantities, but this is not the primary source of excess energy.
True, but if a caveman named Rossi had discovered fire, there would be other cavemen who wouldn’t believe it until the role of oxygen in combustion had been verified.
Rossi is a promoter, not a nuclear physicist. The NI + H —> Cu reaction is the only credible explanation for a nuclear reaction in his device, since it doesn’t seem to require using heavy water.
He didn’t need to be a nuclear physicist. He just needed to measure the actual products of the reaction, which did not include more than trace amounts of Cu.
And trace amounts of Cu would be enough: nuclear reactions release a great deal of energy.
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