On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On one sense this was an historic event, but from the point of view of an > organization like the AP it was not newsworthy. > If they had believed this was really a one megawatt nuclear fusion reactor using nickel and hydrogen as fuel in low temperature nuclear reaction, you bet your bippy it would be news -- BIG news. Without knowing the name of customer and the particulars there is no story > here. > Correct. But that's because it was not credible. If an AP reporter had been present at the first test of a transistor at > Bell Labs on Dec. 24, 1947, I doubt the reporter would have anything > newsworthy to say. It did not look like much and it did not prove much, > from a mass media point of view. > Bad analogy -- if the E-cat were real, this could have been a spectacular demonstration with lots of steam and noise and spouting and fuss. It's not a transistor. It's a MEGAWATT PLANT. The steam should have powered some sort of engine, heated a room, lifted some weights, done SOMETHING. And the generator should have been shut down (Rossi could have and should have powered his instruments from the mains through a metered supply). There would have been something to see if the machine really was powered by cold fusion instead of diesel.
