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| ==Vorführung am 8. Juli 2011== | | ==Vorführung am 8. Juli 2011== |
− | Am 8. Juli konnte ein Besucher namens Julian Brown in Bologna für kurze Zeit den Reaktor in Funktion sehen. Er berichtete darüber in einem Blog und teilte mit, dass Rossi von einem Kühlwasserfluss von 15 Litern pro Stunde ausging. | + | Am 8. Juli konnte ein Besucher namens Julian Brown in Bologna für kurze Zeit den Reaktor in Funktion sehen. Er berichtete darüber in einem Blog namens "ecatnews" und teilte mit, dass Rossi von einem Kühlwasserfluss von 15 Litern pro Stunde ausging.<ref>http://ecatnews.com/?p=489#comment-70</ref> Er sah jedoch die bereits bekannte Pumpe der Firma LMI und ging von einem geschätzten Kühlwasserfluss von lediglich 3 Litern/Std aus.<ref>Julian Brown<br>July 17, 2011 - 12:41 pm<br> |
| + | Rossi gave me a personal demonstration of a group of 4 e-cats working at his premises outside Bologna on Friday 8th. I saw essentially the same set up reported by Krivit in June. |
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| + | I was there in the capacity of friendly off-the-record adviser re patenting issues. |
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| + | Whilst I didn’t like the tone of Krivit’s June 16 report, I had arrived in Bologna full of optimism. |
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| + | I am afraid that I now fully share Krivit’s opinion. |
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| + | There are a number of reasons for this. Here are a few. |
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| + | As has been pointed out numerous times on this blog, the dryness of the steam/water vapur is abolutely crucial to the viability of the e-cat. |
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| + | Imagine my astonishment and disappointment on finding that Rossi makes no attempt to monitor the dryness of the output and there was no appropiate equipment visible on the premises. |
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| + | It follows that Rossi can not possibly know whether he has 1,2 5 or even 10 percent unvaporized phase by weight. Passive observers like myself, Krivit, Essen & Kullander have even less chance of determining this crucial parameter. |
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| + | Even worse, since the output tube went straight through a hole in the wall to be vented/flushed outside, it could have been pure hot water and nobody, least of all Rossi, could possibly know. |
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| + | Basically, the whole set up defies even approximate quantitative calorimetric analysis. |
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| + | Another odd thing was that Rossi pumped up the electrical power for a minute or two shortly before turning it off and allowing me to see that the water kept an output temperature of 100.5 for a couple of minutes. |
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| + | This gave me the impression that it was a performance for my benefit and not the rigorous testing procedure that the technician sitting in front of the PC appeared to suggest. |
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| + | The final clincher for me is that Rossi made a point of telling me that he was currently vaporizing 15 litres / hour. |
| + | BUT, the peristaltic pump was exactly the same one he uses in all demonstrations and it was pulsing about once every 2.5 seconds. |
| + | I make that 3 litres / hour, only 20 percent of what Rossi told me verbally. |
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| + | And yet this small flow was being shared amongst 4 e-cat modules. That isnt much of a stress test is it ? |
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| + | The small chimney will result in a small overpressure and a boiling temperature > 100 Celsius, so I am not impressed by 100.5 Celsius |
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| + | I must admit that I didnt reach these dismal conclusion on the day. It took about 3 days of pondering what I had seen before all the pieces of the puzzle dropped into place. |
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| + | It may be this explains why Rossi has been able to convince so many qualified people. |
| + | You dont want to believe it is just a gross and extremely simple circus trick. |
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| + | He certainly has a charming manner; I liked him and would never suggest he has criminal intent. My hunch is that he did make a discovery that goes beyond the level acheived by Piantelli and Focardi, but that he got too enthusiastic too soon, before he had really done due diligence. He is now trapped in the web of commitments and claims he has made. A tragic figure really. |
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| + | PS I was in experimental atomic physics research at Oxford from 1981-1989 and have since that time been an employee of the European Patent Office.</ref> |
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| ==Replikationsversuche== | | ==Replikationsversuche== |