1 MW Cold Fusion Plant Supposedly To Come Online

First time accepted submitter Jherico writes "Andrea Rossi (covered here a few times before) is scheduled to bring his 1MW plant online Oct. 28th. This will likely either be the point where 'unexpected technical difficulties' unmask this for the scam it is, or the presence of an actual 1MW plant with no chemical fuel source will silence a lot of skeptics. What would you do if it were real?"

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Better link

[Sockatume]

The discussion for events happening today has been moved onto its own thread:

http://www.e-catworld.com/2011/10/e-day-thread-rossis-1-mw-e-cat-plant-tested-by-first-customer/

PES Network is going to be tweeting about it:

https://twitter.com/#!/PESNetwork

Prepare for some real-time cognative dissonance from Rossi et al.

Re:Better link

[Sockatume]

So, now the Twitter feed says they've been asked not to report until the test concludes. Which is midnight. Allegedly that's also when the video of the test will be released but I'm going to have to assume that we won't hear anything at all until they come up with an excuse and get their story straight.

With any luck the AP will write something informative about it, but maybe they'll be kicked out.

Re:What would I do?

[foobsr]

there's no reason a paper shouldn't pass peer review

Right.

""Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity"

CC.

Re:Slashdot is posting blatant scams now?

[Anonymous Coward]

How the hell did he convince anyone to fund a cold fusion reactor anyways? ...(and get some more funding)

He convinced himself. Its entirely self-funded. He ONLY makes money if his 1MW reactor works. Period. If he needs more funding, its coming out of his own pocket. If he's to make any money off this, he must get the 1MW reactor online. Otherwise, he's out of pocket the entire cost of the project. In fact, it was previously publicized that he's turned down funding from others to the public dismay of those would wanted to invest.

Your post is extremely uninformed and ignorant. That's not to say I've bought into his effort but I am wishing.

Re:Sadly its not real

[MyLongNickName]

>> I work at a physics lab, and I can assure you that the cold fusion effect is very real, but nobody can explain yet why it works, ...sometimes

I doubt this. You don't even realize that 1 MW is not a measure of energy.

Re:Sadly its not real

[wembley fraggle]

Imagine a hundred-watt light bulb.

Now imagine ten thousand of them, crammed together. Toss a few more in for good measure, since a 100W bulb produces about 98W of heat (2W of light, which is why we're trying to phase them out).

Now consider what that would do to the plastic bucket. And stop nitpicking on Joules vs Joules/sec. Shorthanding watts into "energy production" makes sense, because having a measure of total energy produced is kind of meaningless (a 1MJ plant that took a thousand years to produce that MJ wouldn't be that interesting).

So yeah, seems unlikely.

Some of Rossi's Results Reportedly Replicated

[Paul Fernhout]

Great points and you might like this: http://ecatsite.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/dr-george-miley-replicates-patterson-names-rossi/
http://energycatalyzer3.com/news/some-of-rossi%E2%80%99s-cold-fusion-results-reportedly-replicated

By me on why the results should be freely released, btw: http://peswiki.com/index.php/OS:Economic_Transformation

Re:dear moron

[Lumpy]

The problem was that government officials and Teller were trying to Cover their asses and that is why that was put into the official document that went to washington.

Oppenhimer himself said that Teller, "lacked the sense to shut up" about it.

Re:Ether

[compro01]

It's aether, not ether.

A device extracting energy from ether would be a diesel engine.