Andrew <andrew...@att.net> wrote: > > Since the supply powering the E-cat is off-limits, they measure only wall > power. That means that one could secrete a discrete power source inside the > supply box, and its power output would evade measurement. That's the "input > hoax". >
Mary Yugu suggested this, at Forbes. Unless she or some other skeptic can describe a method of fooling a modern, high quality power meter I think she has no case. > The "output hoax" might consist of secreting a nuclear power source, > appropriately shielded, inside the other inaccessible part of the > apparatus; the E-cat itself. > Bianchini's meters would have detected this. Even a Pu-238 reactor will trigger his sensors. Pu-238 costs fantastic sums of money and civilians such as Rossi are not allowed to buy it. It would take about 1.4 kg of Pu-238 to produce this much heat. The U.S. DoE is spending $1.5 billion to produce 150 kg of the stuff. That's $10 million per kg, so this would cost Rossi $14 million if he bought it on the black market. I guess he could steal it himself from highly secure DoE bomb factories that hold 50,000 drum cans of toxic radioactive waste. I doubt he is capable of that. I think we should rule out this kind of thing. - Jed
