Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: The first Ni-H device to achieve significant excess energy (> 10 watts > continuous) and to run for a year in OU mode, and which was completely > verified by NASA, and Haldeman at MIT - was the Thermacore reactor, based > on Mills’ theory and invented by Gernert, Shauback, and Ernst. >
Good point. That was an important device. > **** > > ** ** > > Those three: Gernert, Shauback, and Ernst should get full credit IMO – > not Piantelli, not Focardi, not Rossi, not even Mills . . . > I think that is putting it too strongly. Rossi deserves a great deal of credit for applying Arata's technique to the system. He probably added many of his own ideas. I do not know the extent of his contribution because it is still largely secret. There is no doubt he is the first to achieve kilowatt-level stable reactions. I've often said this is "only a matter of engineering" but I am being facetious. It is a major accomplishment. Nobel worthy. Like discovering integrated circuits. Cold fusion deserves a couple dozen Nobel prizes for various contributions. Certainly Arata deserves one. Fleischmann and Pons deserve at least two each, for physics and chemistry, plus one for putting up with nitwits. They should give me one in that category. > As we have mentioned here before, their reactor got more energy per unit > of Nickel surface area than the current Rossi reactor . . . > How do you figure that? Are you saying that there is a great deal more surface area in nanoparticle material? - Jed
