http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Fusion-Revolution-by-Christopher-Calder-110409-21.html
Fairly good summary.
> Christopher Calder is an advocate for world food supply security
with no financial interest in any energy related business.
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Unlike the notoriously flawed "cold fusion" experiments using
deuterium and palladium conducted by Stanley Pons and Martin
Fleischmann in 1989, Rossi's invention is decidedly "hot" in that the
reactor yields generous amounts of reliable heat. The reaction is so
powerful that even a first year engineering student could easily
measure the E-Cat's healthy net energy gain. We therefore know with
certainty that the E-Cat's energy is real and not an illusion created
by measuring error, a possibility that haunted the work of Pons and
Fleischmann. In some tests E-Cats have continued to produce stable
heat output for very long periods of time even after all energy
inputs were switched off.
Sherlock Holmes would ask what are the odds that Rossi,
Focardi, and Levi could all go insane at the same time, deciding to
throw away their reputations, careers, and scientific legacies by
endorsing a fraudulent energy scheme. How could a public test
closely observed by 50 scientists be faked? The E-Cat produced so
much energy that if the power had come from the wall socket, the
power cord would have melted. No tiny hidden battery could have
possibly unleashed so much energy, and the small amount of hydrogen
gas consumed during the reactor test was independently measured at
less than 1 gram, thus simple combustion is ruled out as an energy
source. Overall hydrogen consumption for the E-Cat is estimated at
0.01 grams of hydrogen to produce 10 kilowatt hours of heat. The
only reasonable explanation for the excess energy produced is some
form of low energy nuclear reaction (LENR). Thus, no matter how
improbable it is that Rossi and others have discovered a new field of
physics, it must be true according to the practical logic of Sherlock Holmes.
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