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parallel wrote:Great debate about how many angels can stand on the head on a pin.

I vote for six angels, two leprechauns, and a partridge in a pear tree.

Either you have to explain why NI58 doesn't react (Rossi did this by claiming enrichment and then later only NI62 and NI64 'reacting') or you have to explain why you don't end up with nasty NI59. They mix 1 part nickel powder with 1 part randonium and 1 part of unobtainium . That special mixture ne...

"All of a sudden the current energy goes from being almost too much to almost negligible," said lead author Thomas Jarboe, a UW professor of aeronautics and astronautics. He presents the findings this week at the International Atomic Energy Association's 24th annual Fusion Energy Conference in San D...

MSimon wrote:What do they plan to use to run the accelerator? They WILL need electric power. And a fair amount of it.

Apparently they plan on using a fission reactor.

bennmann wrote:I am not even 30 yet, I cannot wait to see what the next few decades bring and the next few decades after that.

Actually you can wait, and you will almost certainly have to.

Yet another person who is closer to the E-Cat than his know-nothing critics here, who has presumably invested in it. HEARSAY EVIDENCE is the evidence of those who relate, not what they know themselves, but what they have heard from others. As a general rule, hearsay evidence of a fact is not admiss...

If I claimed I had a herd of unicorns at the North pole which were so well camouflaged no-one had ever seen them he would believe me. I note your eyes are still firmly closed. Have you ever had any experience taking field measurements on unicorns? Of course no one can see them -- they are invisible...

(2) What happens to the reaction products when the WL system is switched off. They must persist, and would result in detectable unshielded radiation at the end of experiments for some time. The obvious proof that something nuclear is happening is a before and after sample of the magic nickel power,...

Conclusion The "Rossi effect" is verified The power source can not be of chemical nature. Says who? Was there an independent test of heat output over an extended period (say 2 weeks) without adding the complexity of a phase change? Was a separate but identical test performed concurrently using the ...

To be clear, even if a new bacteria were to emerge and provide an example of mutation, this does not entail a structural development. Evolution proposes that random mutation and natural selection constantly give rise to structure that supports new function.Evolutionary biologiosts have always been ...

polyill wrote:

chrismb wrote:


Fronti nulla fides

I would really like to know what that is

Sortof reminds me of the engine for a pop-pop boat I made with my daughter some years ago...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCm0jW5Bjdg&start=16m40s The stuff about 15-16 minutes in (thrusters) looks like George Miley's stuff at UIllinois. The presenter Magdi Ragheb is from University of Illinois, so the connection would certainly make sense. From what I understand the plasma is directed (...

with the device configured to emit neutrons as a jet That would be a neat trick. Any idea how to do it? (Aside from shielding.) At about 17 minutes in, the presenter in the youtube talk shows some pictures and makes the claim that he has a device "existing running" in his lab producing a neutron je...

Seems smarter to use the excess plutonium laying around and just use the neutron source for the small deficit due to excess minor actinides. IIRC the lead in time to create enough U233 would be decades. ICBW I suppose it all depends on the rate at which the polywell machines being employed can prod...

Near wall issues? The neutron flux will irradiate the polywell device. Certainly. Just as the neutron flux while enriching uranium will irradiate the centrifuges, the factory equipment, the mining trucks, the ore crushers, etc. And leaves around tons and tons of mine tailings and depleted uranium. ...