Mary Yugo <maryyu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Rossi can't rely on anyone else at all to help make the wondrous > machines? If he's afraid of reverse engineering, he'd better not sell any > at all! How does he know what his customers will do with them?
I believe he thinks it is easy to keep track of a few large customers rather than many small ones. Also it is true that he cannot get a license for kilowatt scale home units for several years. > Or maybe he's relying on that self-destruct mechanism he once claimed? > How would that work? I doubt that mechanism exists. I do not think anyone knows how it would work. Any cold fusion cathode work harder will self-destruct to some extent merely by being exposed to air, and especially to carbon. I would open the cell in a glovebox in nitrogen. Actually, I might open it the first time by remote control. > Couldn't any capable modern high tech shop get past it? Certainly > government labs could. > If there is a mechanism, I expect it could be overcome. As I remarked here a few days ago, if you buy a reactor with 100 cells in it, you might trigger the self-destruct mechanism in the first two or three cells you open, but after that it is likely you will find a way to open a cell without damaging it. You could then reverse engineer it. Ed Storms and others think that merely examining the powder in detail might not yield enough information to reverse engineer it. You would still not know how to fabricate the stuff. Perhaps that is true, but I'm sure that knowing the exact formula and the characteristics of the powder, such as particle size, would be a great help. - Jed
