Maybe that month long duration is like Piantelli's long runs. They cannot be reliably repeated. So, while that heater may be true, Rossi cannot reproduce that so easily.
2012/1/24 Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> > OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson <svj.orionwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Jed, as I'm sure you are aware, Jones has been quite vocal with his >> prediction that Rossi's e-cats (at least the e-cats we've seen so far) >> will eventually be discovered to go "quiescent" in approximately 8 >> hours after being turned on. > > > I do not know where Jones got this from. I have not heard it from Rossi or > anyone else working with Ni-H. Rossi said it goes bananas after some period > of time. It goes out of control. Whatever that means. He did not say it > turns off and he cannot restart it. Neither did Forcard or Levi or any of > the others who have observed his reactors for days or weeks. > > There is no doubt it can run indefinitely with input power. Levi observed > an 18-hour run. Others have seen much longer ones. > > I don't see what the problem is here. As long as you can make this thing > run *with* power, who cares if there is some limitation that makes it > stop after 8-hours in self-sustaining mode? If it explodes after 8 hours > that's a problem! But so what if it turns off? Just run it with power > input. It seems Defkalion is doing that. Input power is only a fraction of > output, so it does not matter. Defkalion's ratio is presently 20, they say. > I'm sure with some more engineering they can make any ratio they want. > > I do not understand why Rossi and his customer (?) wanted to run the big > reactor in self-sustaining mode in October. I guess they had their reasons. > > > Meanwhile, we know that Rossi has claimed (boasted?) that he has had >> his e-cats warming a factory for a solid year... or something to that >> effect. However, as we all know, it would be unwise to take Rossi's >> word considering how creative he can be with his use of words. > > > Yeah. It's an itty-bitty space heater at the EON Factory. The address is > in the patent. > > I had some difficulty believing that. Then Forcardi talked about going to > the factory and seeing the gadget, in one of his interviews. I heard that > and thought, "maybe it's true after all." > > Then a Reliable Source sent me a photo of the gadget, with some technical > details, such as the fact that it ran continuously during the winter of > 2008-2009, producing between 5 and 8 kW. I asked permission to upload this > document, but so far, no dice. I have no reason to doubt this is real, and > the heater did run continuously for months. > > I realize the noisy skeptics would say I have many reasons to doubt it. > For me . . . I imagine myself a well-informed aviation enthusiast in 1905. > Some friends come by and show me photos from their recent visit to Dayton, > such as this one: > > http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/genbob/1905WrightFlight41.jpg > > They say, "yeah we saw it fly a good 50 feet in the air for 20 minutes." I > know these people to be experts in aviation. I have no doubt that the > Wrights and others have flown. I have seen other people make uncontrolled > glider flights, such as this guy: > > http://www.flyingmachines.org/lilthl.html > > I think under those circumstances back in 1905 I would be crazy to doubt > what my friends tell me. There is simply no rational reason to think my > friends are crazy, deluded or fooled, or that they are conspiring to fool > me. I do not see any significant difference between that situation and this > one. > > - Jed > > -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com
