Mary Yugo <maryyu...@gmail.com> wrote: Do you seriously think that a chemist examining that cup would not find the >> source of heat? Get real. Once you look inside the magic trick stage prop, >> the trick is always instantly obvious. >> > > > That's the point though, isn't it? Nobody was ever allowed to see the > inside of Rossi's ecats -- not the little ones and not the "Ottoman" sized > one either.
That is incorrect. Many people have looked inside these devices. The photographs of the Ottoman size device instantly rule out any possibility of a chemical or other conventional source of heat. The size of the inner-cell alone rule this out. You do not have to know what it is made of. You can estimate the necessary volume of a chemical or electrical source of heat sufficient to produce approximately this much energy. It would be much bigger than this. I have pointed this out many times. Evidently you do not understand it. This point is fundamental to cold fusion, so I suggest you make an effort to grasp it. We do not know what is going on inside a cathode or piece of metal. No one can look "inside it" at the subatomic level where the reaction occurs, except by indirect means. Nevertheless, we know from the volume and mass of the cathode alone that the reaction has to be nuclear. Mme. Curie new the same thing about her radium samples, for exactly the same reasons. - Jed
