This remember me a quotation: Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. Otto von Bismarck<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/o/otto_von_bismarck.html>
It seems Inventions are similar, the ways of technical creativity are very tortuous. Based on my own experience luck has a determinant role. Peter Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/o/ottovonbis161318.html#ixzz1Gk626pJU On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > The information below was sent to me by an anonymous person who could be > a conspiracy theorist, due to a number of other rants and mysterious > ravings… or not. > > But heck, I will read and try to apply a fair appraisal to almost anything > related to the Rossi invention – given the chance that it could be real, > and given the high probability that if it is not a scam, Rossi himself does > not have a clue. And someone else might have some insight. > > Having looked at this site (which contains other extraneous information),and > thought about it in > depth, I am now pretty sure there could be something valid to it …. > > *http://www.rexresearch.com/johnsonjtec/johnson-th.htm*<http://www.rexresearch.com/johnsonjtec/johnson-th.htm> > > Look at Fig 1 and 2 about a third of the page down, which is the > originalinvention > . > > The TEG design by Johnson is derivative, but can be (or has been) modified > to use hydrogen as a medium, plus the thermoelectric materials, which > could include at least one spillover catalyst (which shows up in the > Rossi/LTI patent for another kind of TEG). > > The idea is that in the process of working on advanced TEGs which was > Rossi’s forte, and which could contain hydrogen gas to give thermionic > properties, it could have been accidental (for someone, even if not Rossi) to > find that the thermoelectric materials actually interacted with the hydrogen > for heat generation – instead of merely the conversion of heat. > > The important patent is rather old: > > *****US Patent # 4,368,416* 1983 > > *****Thermionic-Thermoelectric Generator System and Apparatus* ***** * > > *Jasper L. JAMES* ( deceased January 11, 1983 ) > > This kind of design - could tie into what Andrea Rossi “might have been > doing” 3-4 years ago with remnants of the earlier TEG work for DoE and LTI > , but with the idea of hydrogen carrying away heat as ions… and then he > got very lucky. > > I should mention that Ed Storms thinks Rossi was working on a completely > different kind of project at the time, but it could have been that he was > working on both at the same time. When you hit the jackpot, you might just > have been the luckiest guy on the planet the particular day of your ‘Goodyear > Moment’. Who knows? > > There is also some kind of vague conspiracy around the original device, > which I do not understand. > > Jones > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
