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1 MW Cold Fusion Plant Supposedly To Come Online

Posted by samzenpus on from the free-enegy-time dept.

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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  1. Better link by Sockatume · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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    No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
    1. Re:Better link by Sockatume · · Score: 4, Informative

      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.

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      No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
  2. Re:Sadly its not real by wembley+fraggle · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.