Martin said:
I prefer the scientific reports that suggest that he is at best
misguided and at worst a fraud.
Forbes is hardly a cutting edge science journal. If this was working
cold fusion/transmutation of nickel into copper then it would be trivial
to test the isotopic signatures before and after the run. Any routine
ICPMS lab could do the test and it would be unambiguous.
Fingerprinting isotopes and impurities is generally used for fake gold
claims and checking the terroir of expensive wines for forgery.
There would also be a fair amount of positron emission too since the
most common isotopes of nickel are 58 (68%) and 60 (26%) and have a long
way to go before they get to stable isotopes of Copper at 63 & 65.
If copper is detected I'd be prepared to put money on it having the same
isotopic signature and impurities ad BDH Analar reagent.
I am prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt for now, but I want
to see the isotopic signatures and radiation to prove his claims!
If it really is tapping into nuclear reactions it would hardly matter -
the energy released in a nuclear reaction is many orders of magnitude
greater than that of chemistry. I have to say don't hold your breath on
this one - it looks very much like Cold Fusion II with dodgy calorimetry
but this time with much less convincing players.
You really don't need to know any of that.
Just take ONE E-cat, put it on my glass table, let me hook up the
input power to MY wattmeter.
Pour water into it and watch steam come out until the total excess
energy exceeds ten times the energy that could be provided by any known
power
system of that mass/volume. ANY device using ANY process producing
that result would be a valuable invention.
I'd start building my steam powered car immediately.
Other experiments I've read about report extremely tiny amounts of excess
energy and sensitive calorimetry with uncertainties of the same order
as the measured results.
To verify the claims of the E-cat in my garage, I'd need:
to measure the input power by watching my utility meter go around.
to measure the input water with a gallon milk jug.
to measure the time by being able to tell day from night.
to measure the hydrogen consumption using a toy balloon of it.
the ability to do multiplication of two-digit numbers in my head.
VERIFICATION IS TRIVIAL!!!! The only access to the device that
I need is the input power port and the input water port. I might
want to weigh it before and after, but I probably don't care if
the energy density is 10x any other power source.
If it works, we should give Rossi a prepaid debit card with no limit,
a villa anywhere he wants and 70 virgins...and the Nobel prize.
There's an astronomical amount of money to be made here.
If it worked, plans would have leaked all over the internet by now.
There is zero reason to go through all the gyrations we've seen.
Well...one...to obscure the fact that it doesn't work.
I'd like to believe, but Rossi has done an excellent job of preventing
that with his strategy of maximum media buzz with zero engineering content.