[ExI] rossi on cold fusion

[spike]

<http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/10/reports-on-rossi-1-mw-october-28-2011.html
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The entire exercise has been a lotta fun for me in a way.  I couldn't
imagine a way for the activation energies to be overcome to cause cold
fusion, but I did think of a bunch of ways to create a device which appears
to make excess heat and attract investors.  I don't want to waste
intellectual energy thinking of ways to cheat when I have no intentions of
doing something like that, but doing so is also important, for it helps
identify someone who is cheating.

 

Suppose you have some kind of magic black box that you claim makes excess
heat.  You say you can create a closed loop device, but that you haven't
yet, for you are not a powerplant guy, rather a nuclear physicist, so in the
meantime you have your 500kW generator here, which you invite the local
techno-proles to investigate, to instrument with ammeters and voltmeters,
and whatever flimflammer and pantookers they want, so they can convince
themselves exactly how much power the black box is receiving.

 

Unbeknown to the innocent crowd, you have rigged a waterline that appears to
go to the radiator, but actually it goes right past the radiator, and dumps
the Diesel engine heat into the water surrounding your magic device.  You
could have young engineering students look all over and miss that.  The
structure upon which the generator sits is made of what looks like ordinary
cheapy structural tubing, but that would be a clever disguise.  It would
carry water to the device.  More than 2/3 of the energy converted by the
generator goes into the radiator, so the engineering students would be going
nuts measuring the electrical power output from the generator, or even the
input to the black box, when the excess heat is actually coming from the
waste heat from the Diesel engine spinning the generator.

 

I don't know if this is how Rossi is doing it, but I think even I could rig
a water line that wouldn't be noticed or is hidden inside the support
structure.  I could get even more tricky: shunt some of the electrical power
to heat the radiator, so that the students and investors would not notice
that the bypassed radiator is cold.  Then you rig the shunt wires to take
off energy before the measurement devices which you invite the investors to
install.

 

spike

 

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