Google language tools don't work on twitter.. But you can copy and paste into google translate The most interesting part is the time line where he says it is in auto-sustain mode.
That's what the horse traders said about Henry Ford and his model-T. If this technology is real, there will be no stopping it. The governments may try to tax it, but free markets won't allow $100/barrel oil if a nearly free alternative is possible.
The "breakthrough" is that the energy comes from fusion. (E=MC^2) So only a small amounts of raw materials are required. (example, 1 gram of hydrogen and 100g of Ni powder can run for 1 to 6 months.) producing many megawatt hours of heat energy. 1 gram of hydrogen costs less than a dollar. Nickel is also abundant and cheap.
In the 1850's, aluminum was much more precious than gold. At that time, the ore was believed to be so tightly bonded to other elements (mostly oxygen) that it was impossible to believe that they could be separated and to attempt it was folly. Charles Martin Hall figured it out and changed the world and made a fortune. The Wright brothers were not believed. Sometimes radical things happen in science that defy the common wisdom of the day.
I'm not sure your point. It is clear that he has spent considerable time and money building his contraptions. Where and how he got the money and how much he has left is of little concern as long as he can give his demos this month.
I've followed Rossi and he is eccentric. He may be delusional and or a scam artist. But I don't really think so--and out of the thousands of public comments he has made, he has never asked for money. He only asks to patient and he'll have something to show in October where the results should speak for themselves.
I understand the odds of success are slim, but I am wishing him success.
The process is Ni powder + hydrogen gas + heat + pressure + (mystery processes/catalysts) = excess heat and transmutation of Nickel to copper. Water is not involved in the process.
There is LOTS of information available if you know where to look. It appears to dribble out and there is very little mainstream media covering it. But here are some good links to the science and demos:
A parimutuel betting system based on the success or failure of his idea would be awesome. I think even odds are a tough sell.
It would be the greatest new invention of the planet Rossi's device turned out to be a new form of energy with 6 to 12 coefficient of performance... but seems like we're due for a science breakthrough.
Rossi has spent all of his savings on this. He would like to see his invention do well in the commercial market. Only a fool, or the GPL crowd, would think its a good idea to toil away on an invention for 20 years and then give the idea away without making a profit.
Rossi has always stated that he expects to be vindicated not in scientific peer-reviewed papers, but by how many units he can sell.
I believe he has discovered something of value--but this test, and the test in the US later this month will be very interesting.
The earlier story about Apple's iPhone geo-location tracking makes me think there are some cozy shenanigans between Apple and the CIA/FBI/law enforcement community. So maybe its not accidental...
Or cheap energy is just around the corner... For instance, a 1MW LENR reactor is due to be demo'd next month that might be the start of very cheap fusion energy.
There are millions of jobs that could be done by automation that are currently not... Retail, stocking/inventory, legal research, real estate transactions, farming, restaurants, banking, accounting, etc. And most consumers would prefer using an ATM to waiting in line to talk to a teller. I cringe when I have to fill out and fax paperwork.
A book about this is available as a pay-what-you-want (free) ebook.
The Lights in the Tunnel
by Martin Ford.
http://www.thelightsinthetunnel.com/
Its definitely worth a read. One of the most eye-opening books I've read in a while.
Come up with a product idea, find the best language to write it in that you are interested in learning.. then hire one or more cheap programmers on odesk.com to write the software. You follow along, adding code when able, or just work on the user experience and PM.... Ideally you'll have customers in mind before you even start that can help test and refine the product. Roll it out as soon as possible and start charging money for it. (Yes, I've done this.. it works.. and your budget can be very small.)
If I hired a programmer who added "GPL" on any of the code I was paying them to write, I'd be seriously ticked off.
If you're a programmer, ask permission before using LGPL. If you want to use ANY GPL source, get permission in writing, letting your employer know the benefits vs. dangers of using GPL in a commercial product.
As a programmer, your job is to provide quality code that does what its supposed to do, using licenses that benefit the employer.
If you're an employer of programmers, you need to make sure you specify in writing that employers are not to use GPL in any of their work unless you want to live by the GPL.
Of course, if you're a programmer and come on board and a some of the source code is already GPL, then its a good idea to have a discussion about the future direction of their intellectual property.
Jeeze guys, have some common sense. Most businesses aren't hiring you to improve repository of free source code... they're out to make a buck by selling software/services that aren't available anywhere else.. so they can make some money over and above what they pay you.
Oooh, so I can do tech support on a free product and only give 30% to the mothership. Geeze, at least with iPhone apps, you get to write code and get paid nothing..
Dangerous indeed. The smoke bomb recipe instructs you to heat the concoction with low heat to melt it into a sticky caramel. Skip that step and its a great recipe-- do that step and watch your parent's house fill with smoke and nearly burn down.
If the developer got sales and exposure because they promised to open source the app, great for them. But my guess is that they used GPL code in their project and released the source code. And now they are paying the piper.
I write software for a living and sell copies of it to provide for my family, so I know a little bit about this topic. As far as I know, books, music and videos don't have a GPL equivalent that could poison the finished result so that it must be given away to be legal.
Do you actually believe that its a good idea to spend thousands of man hours to develop something, put it up for sale, and then also let everyone else give it away for free? If your goal is to make money or even recoup expenses, that seems like a big gamble without a lot of upside. If that isn't your goal, keep enjoying your hobby or government job.
The big issue is that anyone who uses GPL in their apps may end up with this same nightmare scenario. The "pirates" only sin was they tried to charge money for it.
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Google language tools don't work on twitter.. But you can copy and paste into google translate The most interesting part is the time line where he says it is in auto-sustain mode.
That's what the horse traders said about Henry Ford and his model-T. If this technology is real, there will be no stopping it. The governments may try to tax it, but free markets won't allow $100/barrel oil if a nearly free alternative is possible.
Only some of the nickel metal isotopes transmutes releasing energy. Helium is not produced in this "cold" version of fusion.
The "breakthrough" is that the energy comes from fusion. (E=MC^2) So only a small amounts of raw materials are required. (example, 1 gram of hydrogen and 100g of Ni powder can run for 1 to 6 months.) producing many megawatt hours of heat energy. 1 gram of hydrogen costs less than a dollar. Nickel is also abundant and cheap.
As of now, it appears to be running in self-sustained mode (creating heat with little or no electrical input) for over 2 hours.
In the 1850's, aluminum was much more precious than gold. At that time, the ore was believed to be so tightly bonded to other elements (mostly oxygen) that it was impossible to believe that they could be separated and to attempt it was folly. Charles Martin Hall figured it out and changed the world and made a fortune. The Wright brothers were not believed. Sometimes radical things happen in science that defy the common wisdom of the day.
I've followed Rossi and he is eccentric. He may be delusional and or a scam artist. But I don't really think so--and out of the thousands of public comments he has made, he has never asked for money. He only asks to patient and he'll have something to show in October where the results should speak for themselves.
I understand the odds of success are slim, but I am wishing him success.
The process is Ni powder + hydrogen gas + heat + pressure + (mystery processes/catalysts) = excess heat and transmutation of Nickel to copper. Water is not involved in the process.
http://22passi.blogspot.com/2011/10/test-e-cat-7-luglio-2011.html
http://www.esowatch.com/en/index.php?title=Focardi-Rossi_Energy-Catalyzer
http://coldfire-lenr.blogspot.com/2011/09/ready-set-go.html
But the most important public tests are happening today, and at the end of this month in the US.
It would be the greatest new invention of the planet Rossi's device turned out to be a new form of energy with 6 to 12 coefficient of performance... but seems like we're due for a science breakthrough.
Rossi has spent all of his savings on this. He would like to see his invention do well in the commercial market. Only a fool, or the GPL crowd, would think its a good idea to toil away on an invention for 20 years and then give the idea away without making a profit. Rossi has always stated that he expects to be vindicated not in scientific peer-reviewed papers, but by how many units he can sell. I believe he has discovered something of value--but this test, and the test in the US later this month will be very interesting.
Gas taxes?
This security breach does not appear to affect the iPhone 5 to be released tomorrow.
The earlier story about Apple's iPhone geo-location tracking makes me think there are some cozy shenanigans between Apple and the CIA/FBI/law enforcement community. So maybe its not accidental...
The demo is supposed to be held at a currently undisclosed company in the U.S. at the end of October. Here is a info and video of the 1MW reactor: http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3264361.ece
Or cheap energy is just around the corner... For instance, a 1MW LENR reactor is due to be demo'd next month that might be the start of very cheap fusion energy.
There are millions of jobs that could be done by automation that are currently not... Retail, stocking/inventory, legal research, real estate transactions, farming, restaurants, banking, accounting, etc. And most consumers would prefer using an ATM to waiting in line to talk to a teller. I cringe when I have to fill out and fax paperwork.
A book about this is available as a pay-what-you-want (free) ebook. The Lights in the Tunnel by Martin Ford. http://www.thelightsinthetunnel.com/ Its definitely worth a read. One of the most eye-opening books I've read in a while.
Come up with a product idea, find the best language to write it in that you are interested in learning.. then hire one or more cheap programmers on odesk.com to write the software. You follow along, adding code when able, or just work on the user experience and PM.... Ideally you'll have customers in mind before you even start that can help test and refine the product. Roll it out as soon as possible and start charging money for it. (Yes, I've done this.. it works.. and your budget can be very small.)
If you're a programmer, ask permission before using LGPL. If you want to use ANY GPL source, get permission in writing, letting your employer know the benefits vs. dangers of using GPL in a commercial product.
As a programmer, your job is to provide quality code that does what its supposed to do, using licenses that benefit the employer.
If you're an employer of programmers, you need to make sure you specify in writing that employers are not to use GPL in any of their work unless you want to live by the GPL.
Of course, if you're a programmer and come on board and a some of the source code is already GPL, then its a good idea to have a discussion about the future direction of their intellectual property.
Jeeze guys, have some common sense. Most businesses aren't hiring you to improve repository of free source code... they're out to make a buck by selling software/services that aren't available anywhere else.. so they can make some money over and above what they pay you.
Oooh, so I can do tech support on a free product and only give 30% to the mothership. Geeze, at least with iPhone apps, you get to write code and get paid nothing..
According to RMS, this is the way developers are _supposed_ to make money with GPL software.. GPL--keeping lawyers employed since 1989!
Dangerous indeed. The smoke bomb recipe instructs you to heat the concoction with low heat to melt it into a sticky caramel. Skip that step and its a great recipe-- do that step and watch your parent's house fill with smoke and nearly burn down.
Obligatory link to the Simpsons Monorail song! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF_yLodI1CQ
If the developer got sales and exposure because they promised to open source the app, great for them. But my guess is that they used GPL code in their project and released the source code. And now they are paying the piper.
I write software for a living and sell copies of it to provide for my family, so I know a little bit about this topic. As far as I know, books, music and videos don't have a GPL equivalent that could poison the finished result so that it must be given away to be legal.
Do you actually believe that its a good idea to spend thousands of man hours to develop something, put it up for sale, and then also let everyone else give it away for free? If your goal is to make money or even recoup expenses, that seems like a big gamble without a lot of upside. If that isn't your goal, keep enjoying your hobby or government job.
The big issue is that anyone who uses GPL in their apps may end up with this same nightmare scenario. The "pirates" only sin was they tried to charge money for it.