This is just another way to let fewer people manage more workers.. and we're all for automation and work-place efficiencies? Right?
I hire on odesk and never look at the screen captured images.. But if the employee is not producing, I might want to know what's up. It may also curb some on the clock facebooking. All a worker has to do is hit the pause work button and he can surf and watch NSFW content as much as he wants.
The real issue is that wages for all computer users are getting driven down to 3rd-world levels.. because I can hire a guy anywhere for $10/hour that is
I got my license for communicating on the 2m band for paragliding--its a standard communications device for many types of aviation. But I would say 40K new users in 5 years is not exactly a stampede.
Don't send money to _ANY_ lawyer. Send it to the DEVELOPERS.
License your code BSD if you want anyone to be able to use it, put a commercial license on it if you want to be paid for your work.. Rarely is GPL the best license, for this very reason--because software isn't just for a geek's computer.
Exactly. The President is going to veto it, so its all hand waving and posturing.
This is simply one of the few "good news" stories that the Democrats have, so it is trotted out by the huffpo crowd as a crowning achievement to prevent an immanent evil.
Anyone who remembers a fractional T1 for $600/mo from Covad/AT&T and is now on ComCast business at 35Mbps at $89/mo should be thrilled with the state of things. Wake me up when I am actually dissatisfied or disenfranchised.
I'm guessing the compiler/editor is smart enough to let you hit "code format" and the missing parens and semicolons will appear or disappear to your liking.
I am interested in giving it a try.. even if I just use it as a short-hand to create java code. The fewer keystrokes per day, the better.. I'm a fan of Eclipse---but haven't even looked at using anything else for java coding. I don't miss those yearly $500+ compiler updates!
Wow, I think you figured Rossi out.. He spends hundreds of thousands of dollars and two years building a series of ingenious scam machines and turning down offers for private investment so that he can do a semi-public sales demo and bilk his first customer out of a lousy $2M. Then he has to flee his homes in Italy and the US so he can live out his life in infamy.
A real scam would be to have a few low-power demos, offer vague, non-legally binding promises, and request money from anyone who "cares about the environment." Then get grants, offer stock options, and secure a gigantic loan guarantee from Uncle Sam. Progress reports would be made with success just a few years and few more million dollars down the road. That's the way the hot fusion scientists and the wind/solar guys have been doing it for years.
Doesn't matter... $2M is chump change for this device if it works. A nearly silent 400kw to 1000kw heat generator that doesn't need fuel for 6 to 12 months? At most, the company is out $2M. At best, they have first mover advantage on how to leverage the technology that could be worth 1/5 of the world economy! Imagine a roulette wheel where you can bet 1 dollar and have a 1 in 36 chance of winning a million dollars. Only a fool would worry about the dollar. Large companies can make million dollar bets in the same way.
There were 30+ people preset during the private sales demo. At least 6 from University of Bologna. No one looked at the watt meter on the generator and followed the cables? The generator is a perfect way to know for certain Rossi isn't doing anything to the AC mains. Having two, one for fans and pumps, the other for heating would have been even better.
Seems amazing? Yes. But a scam? What's the exit strategy for this scam? He hasn't requested or accepted any money. Any scam would forfeit the sale. Any trickery would land him and his associates in jail. If you need a year to determine its real, great, sounds like you should work in government. But the sooner this technology gets open sourced, spread and miniaturized, the better.
The list of participants was over 30 people and included bloggers, local news, AP, tech sites, and many from the University of Bologna. It was a semi-closed pre-sales demonstration that could have been 100% closed. If you "follow the money" there is no scam. Any sales contract will be void if there is fraud. Rossi is not asking for outside investment-- he is only selling a product that he guarantees.
This followup report includes more information and video.
http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3303682.ece
Blacklight Power, an alternative energy research company, has replicated the Rossi H-Ni reactor and is letting Rowan University test the output:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfjOIoPwolg
The list of co-conspirators is growing!
- Brad
It may lead to grants, but they certainly are not guaranteed.
This is a mult-terra-euro invention. Rossi wisely decided to build it on his own (with private help) and is now free to see it for whatever price the market deems fit to GE, Lockheed Martin, the military, NASA, Caterpillar, etc. etc. Rossi made his first sale today after demonstrating that his plant could generate 467kw sustained. I'm guessing he is enjoying champagne and isn't too worried that he is not "peer reviewed" by the likes of all the naysayers in academia.
That is the plan. Converting the heat to electricity is more complicated and will come within a year. The main goal now will be to license the technology far and wide. Say goodbye to the electric grid. Say goodbye to oil drilling. Say hello to unlimited desalination, zero-carbon emissions...
From PESNetwork PES Network, Inc. http://twitter.com/#!/PESNetwork
Q&A just finished; reading of results; 470 kW maintained continuously during self-sustain; customer satisfied; sale made; more later.
This is fantastic news. 1MW+ heat energy for hours without any energy input. If you're a solar, wind, coal, or oil company, you should start thinking about a line of business.
Rossi's response was to a general question about how much nickel and hydrogen fuel would be needed to power a 1MW plant for 6 months. The answer was not supposed to be a balanced equation. It was more a response about the size of the fuel loads. (Additionally, the plant will need 167kw of energy to keep it running.)
I've been following this for over a year and there are no batteries. No hidden wires. No secret lasers. No induction coils. Almost every demo has produced more energy than what could be stored in any known chemical battery. All this uninformed commenting is disgusting.
The Wright brothers were were bike mechanics, not trained scientists. Rossi is most certainly a scientist and engineer. You slander him because his claims and demonstrations seem like magic to you.
If there is a 1% chance that he has invented cold fusion, and you invested a million dollars to get 1 percent, your return on investment would still be in the billions.
Publishing peer reviewed papers doesn't put bread on the table. Rossi is an entrepreneur. Selling his technology to a world of willing buyers is the only form of review process that matters to him. The peer-reviewed scientists can write about it when they eventually figure it out.
If it goes well, we can assume there will be a sale. Rossi is demonstrating the product to the customer and a team of their engineers. The customer is going to be in control of the system and can measure anything they like. Hopefully the customer can "bring good things to life".
If it is a scam, it isn't blatant. Its been demonstrated many times with teams of people working on it and examining it.
No one is able to explain a chemical source of heat that would produce boiling water with no electrical input for 3 hours, which was shown in Oct. 6.
Many scientists have reproduced smaller scale LENR reactions. The Rossi/Defkalion Green Technology people are just the first to claim and demonstrate 6 to 20 COP.
Like the invention of light bulbs and airplanes, this seems too good to be true.. which is what makes it fascinating. Keep following.. this will pan out.
It produces heat through a heat exchanger. You are correct--no moving parts except external water pumps, manual valves, electric heaters, and perhaps "frequency generators". .
Here is a good site for aggregate news: http://ecatnow.com/
Correct, and Ni-62 may not react at all. Ni-64 on the other hand is much more unstable. A speculation is that radioactive decay is stimulated by a combination of the heat, pressure, and some kind of oscillator. Here is one method to increase alpha decay electronically: http://patents.com/us-4961880.html (which may or may not be employed..)
It usually appears to maintain heat, but that is by itself should be impressive, since there is a heat exchanger heating in the system actively heating running cold water. This is the first test that uses a closed loop heat exchanger.
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I hire on odesk and never look at the screen captured images.. But if the employee is not producing, I might want to know what's up. It may also curb some on the clock facebooking. All a worker has to do is hit the pause work button and he can surf and watch NSFW content as much as he wants.
The real issue is that wages for all computer users are getting driven down to 3rd-world levels.. because I can hire a guy anywhere for $10/hour that is
"NASA and the U.S. Solar Observatory has said to expect moderate global cooling for the next three decades due to a quiet period on the sun, and a consequent cooling of the Pacific Ocean’s huge heat mass." http://junkscience.com/2011/11/22/earths-embarrassing-lack-of-warming-since-1998/
I got my license for communicating on the 2m band for paragliding--its a standard communications device for many types of aviation. But I would say 40K new users in 5 years is not exactly a stampede.
License your code BSD if you want anyone to be able to use it, put a commercial license on it if you want to be paid for your work.. Rarely is GPL the best license, for this very reason--because software isn't just for a geek's computer.
This is simply one of the few "good news" stories that the Democrats have, so it is trotted out by the huffpo crowd as a crowning achievement to prevent an immanent evil.
Anyone who remembers a fractional T1 for $600/mo from Covad/AT&T and is now on ComCast business at 35Mbps at $89/mo should be thrilled with the state of things. Wake me up when I am actually dissatisfied or disenfranchised.
I'm guessing the compiler/editor is smart enough to let you hit "code format" and the missing parens and semicolons will appear or disappear to your liking. I am interested in giving it a try.. even if I just use it as a short-hand to create java code. The fewer keystrokes per day, the better.. I'm a fan of Eclipse---but haven't even looked at using anything else for java coding. I don't miss those yearly $500+ compiler updates!
A real scam would be to have a few low-power demos, offer vague, non-legally binding promises, and request money from anyone who "cares about the environment." Then get grants, offer stock options, and secure a gigantic loan guarantee from Uncle Sam. Progress reports would be made with success just a few years and few more million dollars down the road. That's the way the hot fusion scientists and the wind/solar guys have been doing it for years.
Doesn't matter... $2M is chump change for this device if it works. A nearly silent 400kw to 1000kw heat generator that doesn't need fuel for 6 to 12 months? At most, the company is out $2M. At best, they have first mover advantage on how to leverage the technology that could be worth 1/5 of the world economy! Imagine a roulette wheel where you can bet 1 dollar and have a 1 in 36 chance of winning a million dollars. Only a fool would worry about the dollar. Large companies can make million dollar bets in the same way.
Seems amazing? Yes. But a scam? What's the exit strategy for this scam? He hasn't requested or accepted any money. Any scam would forfeit the sale. Any trickery would land him and his associates in jail. If you need a year to determine its real, great, sounds like you should work in government. But the sooner this technology gets open sourced, spread and miniaturized, the better.
The list of participants was over 30 people and included bloggers, local news, AP, tech sites, and many from the University of Bologna. It was a semi-closed pre-sales demonstration that could have been 100% closed. If you "follow the money" there is no scam. Any sales contract will be void if there is fraud. Rossi is not asking for outside investment-- he is only selling a product that he guarantees. This followup report includes more information and video. http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3303682.ece
Blacklight Power, an alternative energy research company, has replicated the Rossi H-Ni reactor and is letting Rowan University test the output: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfjOIoPwolg The list of co-conspirators is growing! - Brad
It may lead to grants, but they certainly are not guaranteed. This is a mult-terra-euro invention. Rossi wisely decided to build it on his own (with private help) and is now free to see it for whatever price the market deems fit to GE, Lockheed Martin, the military, NASA, Caterpillar, etc. etc. Rossi made his first sale today after demonstrating that his plant could generate 467kw sustained. I'm guessing he is enjoying champagne and isn't too worried that he is not "peer reviewed" by the likes of all the naysayers in academia.
That is the plan. Converting the heat to electricity is more complicated and will come within a year. The main goal now will be to license the technology far and wide. Say goodbye to the electric grid. Say goodbye to oil drilling. Say hello to unlimited desalination, zero-carbon emissions...
CONGRATS ROSSI!!
This is fantastic news. 1MW+ heat energy for hours without any energy input. If you're a solar, wind, coal, or oil company, you should start thinking about a line of business.
Rossi's response was to a general question about how much nickel and hydrogen fuel would be needed to power a 1MW plant for 6 months. The answer was not supposed to be a balanced equation. It was more a response about the size of the fuel loads. (Additionally, the plant will need 167kw of energy to keep it running.)
I've been following this for over a year and there are no batteries. No hidden wires. No secret lasers. No induction coils. Almost every demo has produced more energy than what could be stored in any known chemical battery. All this uninformed commenting is disgusting.
The Wright brothers were were bike mechanics, not trained scientists. Rossi is most certainly a scientist and engineer. You slander him because his claims and demonstrations seem like magic to you.
If there is a 1% chance that he has invented cold fusion, and you invested a million dollars to get 1 percent, your return on investment would still be in the billions.
Publishing peer reviewed papers doesn't put bread on the table. Rossi is an entrepreneur. Selling his technology to a world of willing buyers is the only form of review process that matters to him. The peer-reviewed scientists can write about it when they eventually figure it out.
If it goes well, we can assume there will be a sale. Rossi is demonstrating the product to the customer and a team of their engineers. The customer is going to be in control of the system and can measure anything they like. Hopefully the customer can "bring good things to life".
If it is a scam, it isn't blatant. Its been demonstrated many times with teams of people working on it and examining it. No one is able to explain a chemical source of heat that would produce boiling water with no electrical input for 3 hours, which was shown in Oct. 6. Many scientists have reproduced smaller scale LENR reactions. The Rossi/Defkalion Green Technology people are just the first to claim and demonstrate 6 to 20 COP. Like the invention of light bulbs and airplanes, this seems too good to be true.. which is what makes it fascinating. Keep following.. this will pan out.
It produces heat through a heat exchanger. You are correct--no moving parts except external water pumps, manual valves, electric heaters, and perhaps "frequency generators". . Here is a good site for aggregate news: http://ecatnow.com/
However, the October 8th test reports are starting to come out and are looking more and more convincing: http://pesn.com/2011/10/08/9501929_E-Cat_Test_Validates_Cold_Fusion_Despite_Challenges/
It usually appears to maintain heat, but that is by itself should be impressive, since there is a heat exchanger heating in the system actively heating running cold water. This is the first test that uses a closed loop heat exchanger.