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by Enginerd
Fri Sep 20, 2013 12:07 am
Forum: News
Topic: Li-ion battery with ~3X specific energy (Wh/kg) increase
Replies: 11
Views: 11405

Re: Li-ion battery with ~3X specific energy (Wh/kg) increase

More energy density would be in some ways nice, but did anyone else think "bang"? System stability under large scale manufacture and real world use is important. Help me out here... Wh = mAh * (V / 1000) 1 watt hour = 3600 joules so at 5V: 1200mAh/g * (5V / 1000) * 3600 J/Wh = 21600 J/g and at 12V:...
by Enginerd
Sat Jul 06, 2013 5:30 pm
Forum: News
Topic: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)
Replies: 6351
Views: 2169918

Re: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)

chrismb wrote:Here is Rossi's lead-shielded reactor at 860 C.
My parents have four of those in their kitchen...
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by Enginerd
Mon Jul 01, 2013 6:41 pm
Forum: News
Topic: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)
Replies: 6351
Views: 2169918

Re: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)

chrismb wrote:There are also scams where people don't have to lie.
"Jerry, just remember, it's not a lie if you believe it."
-George Costanza
by Enginerd
Mon Jul 01, 2013 5:07 pm
Forum: News
Topic: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)
Replies: 6351
Views: 2169918

Re: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)

Remember, I asked for examples of Rossi contradicting HIMSELF, not some other person SAYING he contradicted himself. [-------------snip-------------] At this point, "I don't know" is the only logical statement I can make, though I keep looking for hard evidence one way or the other and keep getting...
by Enginerd
Sun Apr 21, 2013 6:31 am
Forum: News
Topic: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)
Replies: 6351
Views: 2169918

Re: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)

... Presently there is no more reason to believe Rossi than there is reason to believe there is an invisible pink unicorn living in my garage. Except he has had several purportedly credible witnesses and you, unless I have missed something, have not. True, not enough, but more than your PU. ;) Jose...
by Enginerd
Sun Apr 21, 2013 12:10 am
Forum: News
Topic: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)
Replies: 6351
Views: 2169918

Re: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)

Rossi's character is that he bought himself a phony sheepskin and deceived as many as possible as to his qualifications. Also isn't he a convicted fraudster in Italy? Remind me what was that all about? I fully agree that the preponderance of evidence seems to point clearly toward Rossi being a frau...
by Enginerd
Sat Apr 20, 2013 8:02 pm
Forum: News
Topic: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)
Replies: 6351
Views: 2169918

Re: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)

We interrupt the ongoing discussion of how great Rossi may or may
not be for a bit on the psychology of being open-minded vs closed-minded.
If nothing else, it might at least provide something new to argue about.

Who’s More Open-minded, You or Them?
by Enginerd
Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:13 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Thoughts on Thorium Molten Salt Reactors?
Replies: 96
Views: 36506

GIThruster wrote:Well the trouble is, there isn't enough energy in the world to lift hundreds of millions of tons of extremely toxic waste to the sun...
nuclear rockets. :-)
by Enginerd
Thu Dec 20, 2012 4:45 am
Forum: News
Topic: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)
Replies: 6351
Views: 2169918

Note that this post represents neither an endorsement nor rejection of Rossi, et al. Since we have pathological scepticism and pathological faith, can we classify this as pathological noncommittalism? I'm not certain if our noncommittalism is sufficient to merit the term pathological. I think we wi...
by Enginerd
Thu Dec 13, 2012 7:01 am
Forum: News
Topic: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)
Replies: 6351
Views: 2169918

seems they push it over by 2, or 4 , or 6 in the table Whether or not they produce or consume energy, if they can develop this into an industrial process capable of producing commercial quantities of platinum (or perhaps gold), they will have a killer application of LENR on their hands. Both elemen...
by Enginerd
Tue Dec 11, 2012 5:03 pm
Forum: News
Topic: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)
Replies: 6351
Views: 2169918

Skipjack wrote:I think Toyota has transmutation, but no excess energy, right?
Toyota has indeed confirmed excess energy,
with replication by NASA and the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. :-)
by Enginerd
Sat Dec 08, 2012 10:30 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Norway is building thorium reactor
Replies: 11
Views: 5955

Absolutely! Backup evidence. U235 & Pu239 bombs existent ~20,000. U233 bombs existent = 0... ZERO. This should tell us something. According to wikipedia: The United States detonated an experimental device in the 1955 Operation Teapot "MET" test which used a plutonium/U-233 composite pit; this was b...
by Enginerd
Sat Dec 08, 2012 5:41 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Norway is building thorium reactor
Replies: 11
Views: 5955

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121205132246.htm Oh no. Nation states might do bad things using their custom designed expensive reactors. In the production of U233 from thorium-232, it is unavoidable that one will invariably produce small amounts of uranium-232 as an impurity, because ...
by Enginerd
Mon Nov 12, 2012 7:16 pm
Forum: News
Topic: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)
Replies: 6351
Views: 2169918

When a proven liar promisses proof of an earth-shattering technology for the 10th time it is reasonable to expect the promisses to be as flakey as the previous 9 times. In fact you have to be pretty weird not to think that. Exactly... "Liars are not believed even when they speak the truth." http://...
by Enginerd
Fri Nov 09, 2012 7:12 pm
Forum: News
Topic: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)
Replies: 6351
Views: 2169918

ladajo wrote:Not that it matters. It is a crock of shit anyway.
But that is where the energy comes from -- methane production. :-)