Possibly the most important science breakthrough happened today (not really)

[adlep]

Update 10/9/2014
New test of the reactor:
https://animpossibleinvention.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/luganoreportsubmit.pdf

Additional information about the test
http://matslew.wordpress.com/

This site offers news about Rossi's device:
http://www.e-catworld.com/

And finally
The biggest deal, Swedish "Detroit Edison" confirms the phenomenon and allocates funds to study Rossi's device...
http://www.elforsk.se/LENR-Matrapport-publicerad/ (scroll down for the English version).


Update 5/19/2013,

Rossi's reactor has been verified by a 3rd party test:

http://ecat.com/files/Indication-of-anomalous-heat-energy-production-in-a-reactor-device.pdf

It seems like a dawn of a new era, enjoy folks

Through Wired Magazine:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-10/28/cold-fusion

Mr Rossi's E-Cat generator is gaining supporters and if it is a scam, seems that it is the most elaborate one yet...

I hope that this device works.

Mr Rossi's himself:
http://youtu.be/7sZHOQ6P-Rw

http://youtu.be/YN1OSUdktTE

Hell is happening:....Where Italians are the engineers...


http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3303682.ece -> This article talk about getting another university invloved: University of Uppsala in Sweden, which is a respected technical university in Europe.


Edit:
E-CAT.com redirects to google green
http://www.google.com/green/

Thread title has been added to add "not really" since no real science breakthrough has occurred. No false thread titles. -Admin DrPizza

 

[FoBoT]

I hope that this device works.

is hope more commonly associated with science or religion/spiritualism?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markpmills/2011/10/28/the-relentless-pursuit-of-magical-energy/

The Relentless Pursuit of Magical Energy

The tug of magical solutions is irresistible. But what we do today is in historical context already magical. The great forecaster and author Arthur C. Clarke famously said, in one of his three laws of prediction: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” In the context of history, we are performing magic today.

 

[zinfamous]

t'would be nice, but I don't have much hope for the work coming out of Bologna, sad to say.

 

[Balt]

A demonstration earlier this month in Bologna with a smaller E-Cat was intended to answer some of the criticisms.

Bologna

:hmm:

 

[adlep]

is hope more commonly associated with science or religion/spiritualism?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markpmills/2011/10/28/the-relentless-pursuit-of-magical-energy/

Has nothing to do with magic. Nuclear fusion is the type of reaction responsible for us and all life on earth. We just need to discover a practical way to harness it...

Also, consider this presentation about the Thorium based nuclear fission reactors that are safe and burn material that is very common on earth:

http://thoriumremix.com/2011/

 

[SKORPI0]

Wow, sliced Bologna.

 

[adlep]

Mr Rossi's patent application:

http://www.nyteknik.se/incoming/article3080659.ece/BINARY/Rossi-Focardi_paper.pdf

Edit: There is a rumor floating that evil Google may be the client behind the test:
http://ecatinfo.com/e-cat/e-cat-info-hints-sat-google-being-rossi%e2%80%99s-customer

http://freeenergytruth.blogspot.com/2011/10/ecat-1mw-test-update-thread.html -> Chevron and MIT just visited the scammer's blog...


Edit: Apparently Mr. Rossi has made a sale to the first customer rumored to be Google....

Edit2: Video of today's test setup at the university:
http://youtu.be/uFiJb2UhzqY
http://youtu.be/wAqnrpDwaCM

 

[YoungGun21]

It would make sense. Google could obviously fund this, and they are always starved for power.

 

[Uppsala9496]

Hmm, I'll have to reach out to some old colleagues in Uppsala to see what they think of this.

 

[SparkyJJO]

originally the one-megawatt generator was to be composed of three hundred small E-Cats, then it was 52 larger "fat cats", now the number seems to be 43.

He's got it all wrong. The answer is supposed to be 42. He screwed it up, it won't work /facepalm

 

[FoBoT]

if anyone has insomnia
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2731436/posts

 

[wirednuts]

just like the bloom boxes that need natural gas to magically make electricity?

but to be serious, i think we have absolutely no idea how to harness and store energy. i would not be surprised to see this e-cat actually be real, and surely we will find technology that is thousands of times greater then this stuff were dreaming of now. people will look back on our current nuke plants and just be in shock what were doing..... how unsafe and barbaric it is.

 

[adlep]

if anyone has insomnia
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2731436/posts

http://db.tt/wu4OLbgk

Mr Rossi's handwritten report from today's test will contribute to the insomnia!

Edit: List of people attending today's demonstration is full of physicists and scientists which makes it VERY Different from typical MO of the scammer and fraudster.
http://ecatnews.com/?p=1131

 

[wirednuts]

yeah this is creepily starting to seem real... if it is this would be like the entire world winning the lottery....

 

[adlep]

Nice summary here:

http://pesn.com/2011/10/28/9501940_1_MW_E-Cat_Test_Successful/

 

[mb]

if anyone has insomnia
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2731436/posts

What a terribly formatted message board :thumbsdown:

 

[Bignate603]

Mr Rossi's patent application:

http://www.nyteknik.se/incoming/article3080659.ece/BINARY/Rossi-Focardi_paper.pdf

That is not a patent application. It's a technical paper. VEEERY different. One protects your idea from everyone else, the other announces it to the world and pretty much makes it available for everyone to use.

Edit: List of people attending today's demonstration is full of physicists and scientists which makes it VERY Different from typical MO of the scammer and fraudster.
http://ecatnews.com/?p=1131

After reading through what's going on it's pretty obvious that the guy believes he is on to something. Whether or not he is correct remains to be seen.

 

[Matthiasa]

I'll believe it when I can read it on Nature.

Stuff like this has proven to be false so many times it's kind of ridiculous.

 

[BladeVenom]

Stuff like this has proven to be false so many times it's kind of ridiculous.

+1, until two other organizations are able to repeat his experiment, I take this about as seriously as a Bigfoot sighting.

 

[dmcowen674]

It would make sense.

Google could obviously fund this, and they are always starved for power.

No they are not starved for power, they get it for free.

They get free electric because me and the rest in our area are giving Google free electric to build their data center there in Pryor so my electric rates quadrupled to give Google the free electric.

 

[DrPizza]

BAHAHAHAAAAAhahahaaaa! LMAO. It amazes me that people still believe in this bullshit.

It's not a matter of proving that this particular time it's fake - it's a matter of "this has been proven to be impossible a long time ago."

This device is the equivalent of a kindergartener claiming that he can mix off the shelf chemicals from mommy's kitchen (sugar, baking soda, salt, etc.) and make gold. People who believe in this device are equivalent to people saying "well, maybe there's something about chemistry that we don't quite understand enough to know that it's impossible to make gold out of baking soda and salt." Yes, we DO know enough about chemistry to know that's impossible. And, far more than enough is known about nuclear physics to know that this cold fusion device is impossible.

 

[darkswordsman17]

I believe the OP has a history of falling for bullshit. I can't remember what it was about but there was another thread where he got really pissy and argumentative over something similar.

I always wondered who the fuck the people that religious idiots that claim people treat science the exact same way as God were talking about.

Gaining support doesn't mean he's not full of shit. See Bernie Madoff.

 

[TecHNooB]

I believe the OP has a history of falling for bullshit. I can't remember what it was about but there was another thread where he got really pissy and argumentative over something similar.

I always wondered who the fuck the people that religious idiots that claim people treat science the exact same way as God were talking about.

Gaining support doesn't mean he's not full of shit. See Bernie Madoff.

I was looking for said thread yesterday. I think it was about a cancer cure or something medical related.

 

[Gigantopithecus]

+1, until two other organizations are able to repeat his experiment, I take this about as seriously as a Bigfoot sighting.

...I think you're being generous to cold fusion. Bigfoot is much more plausible!

 

[Pray To Jesus]

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