Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 3:33 am
The only news from BLP in the last 10 years has been press releases aimed to milk out more money from their investors, IMHO.TallDave wrote: How's BLP doing these days, I wonder? Not much news anymore...
a discussion forum for Polywell fusion
https://talk-polywell.org/bb/
The only news from BLP in the last 10 years has been press releases aimed to milk out more money from their investors, IMHO.TallDave wrote: How's BLP doing these days, I wonder? Not much news anymore...
I guess Aussie Guy problem was that he was lacking a fundamental characteristic to become a customer of Rossi.TallDave wrote:Aussie guy has been turned down! Andrea says he will only sell 1MW units.
The Defkalion product should be interesting.
Rossi futures trending negative on light volume, pending Rossi's next customer and their level of mysteriousness...
Perhaps, but as I said in an earlier post, he has stated that he was only selling 1MW plants for now (to better protect his IP?). He now claims 13 more units have been sold to mystery client #1 which will no doubt remain a mystery through all those units. This will put Rossi below the radar for some time unless UoB and/or Uppsala actually gets an eCat and funding.Giorgio wrote:I guess Aussie Guy problem was that he was lacking a fundamental characteristic to become a customer of Rossi.TallDave wrote:Aussie guy has been turned down! Andrea says he will only sell 1MW units.
The Defkalion product should be interesting.
Rossi futures trending negative on light volume, pending Rossi's next customer and their level of mysteriousness...
He was not Mysterious at all, but a real guy willing to put his face and name into this story
ladajo wrote:https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity ... 6&_cview=0TallDave wrote:Well, I tried fbo for EMC2, who we know is a contractor, and all it says is "Thank You for Contacting Usladajo wrote:It would be visible on fbo.gov or neco.
Paul Swanson says he can not vouch for the test, regardless of what Rossi says.
Thank you for contacting US Contractor Registration. Someone will be contacting you shortly." which isn't very helpful. I didn't find any reference to EMC2 on the NECO synposis search either. Even assuming this is just a result of my not having a lot of familiarity with the sites, since we don't know who Rossi might have subcontracted with it isn't even clear who exactly we should be searching for.
As best I can tell, Swanson has only said he will not comment at all. Regardless of whether Swanson does actually vouch for the E-cat test results, Rossi bringing his name up suggests either the Navy has some interest, or that Rossi is so insane he is naming the names of people who have no interest.
https://www.neco.navy.mil/upload/N68936 ... R-0044.pdf
Swanson will not vouch for the testing.
http://ecat.com/Andrea Rossi wrote:Andrea Rossi
November 21st, 2011 at 11:25 PM
Dear Felipe From Chile:
You are right, we are organizing this.
BY THE WAY: WE COLLECT FROM NOW THE NAMES OF ALL THE PERSONS OR ENITITES INTERESTED TO BUY AN E-CAT OF 10 KW. IF WE WILL REACH 10,000 NAMES IN THE LIST, THE PERSONS IN THE WAITING LIST WILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO CONFIRM OR NOT THEIR ORDER AT 400 EURO/THERMAL KW. DO NOT SEND MONEY, WE WILL ACCEPT THE ORDERS ONLY IF WE WILL REACH 10,000 NAMES IN THE WAITING LIST, COMBINING OUR LIST WITH THE WAITING LIST ORGANIZED BY OUR BROTHERS OF HYDROFUSION .
WARM REGARDS,
ANDREA ROSSI, LEONARDO CORP. (PRESIDENT)
EDITOR'S NOTE: According to Sen. Bruce Tarr, Andrea Rossi, "the Italian scientist who claims to have developed the world's first nuclear cold fusion reactor is coming to the State House tomorrow to explore the prospects of developing the device and producing it in Massachusetts." Tarr's office says Rossi plans to visit Tuesday morning for two days of meeting with government officials and representatives of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University Massachusetts and Northeastern University. "Mr. Rossi's reactor, if successfully proven and developed, has the potential to change the way the world deals with energy," Tarr said in a statement.
Indeed, you are.ladajo wrote:Idiot, no matter how you slice it.
I was playing with this: http://www.radprocalculator.com/Gamma.aspxKitemanSA wrote:Michael Lee?I wrote:From what I can find quickly wrt gamma shielding, your post above suggests that the frequency of the radiation does NOT matter in the halving distance. Is that what you are saying? Would the same power of 6MeV gamma require the same thickness as 350keV? Is that what you are saying?MSimon wrote:The 1/10 thickness (lead) for 350 KeV gammas is 1 cm. I leave it to you to provide the rest of the numbers.
You won't like the results.
1 ev = 1.60217646 × 10-19 joules
1000 w/(350,000 *1.6e-19)= 17,857,142,857,142,857 gammas a second.
say 1.79e18 gammas a second let us say we spread that over 1 m^ for convenience. So you have 1.8 e14 gammas a second Ans want to reduce it to 1 gamma/cm^2/second.
About 14 cm of lead should do it. So it is 10,000 *14 cc. 140,000 ccs. Density of lead is 11.3 g/cc. = 1,582 Kg. A little over a metric ton and a half. Doable. Even if it goes to 50% more than that. Higher energies will require more shielding as shielding effectiveness goes down with increasing energy. If most of your photons are above 1 MeV - weight problems.
Where does it stop, frequency wise?
This is a 20 foot container, so each module including total package could be no more than 20/10 or 2 feet across. You can argue from the photos that they are about 1 foot high. But, as seen in the pics, they are wrapped in insulation (not shielding), so that means the module containre itself is smaller.100 E-Cat modules, each with 3 reaction chambers in them, for a total of 300 reaction chambers. An additional 20 or so units had been installed on the top of the shipping container, compared to the earlier photos and videos we had seen
per: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-foo ... alent_unitSubtracting the tare mass of the container itself, the maximum amount of cargo per TEU is reduced to approximately 21,600 kilograms (48,000 lb).[4]
You just lost all sorts of credibility. Too bad.Am wrote:Indeed, you are.ladajo wrote:Idiot, no matter how you slice it.
I think it will turn into another hand waving incident.JoeP wrote:Actually, this is a good sign.
The State of Massachusetts will want Rossi to set up shop there if it can be proven he has a bona fide product. They would offer incentives such to have such an industry in the state, if valid. And they are bringing MIT people along to specify terms. Which will include validation, unless you believe that the MIT people are idiots.
Rossi must know there will be these kind of conditions, so the fact that he is even entertaining it is an interesting turn of events.
Yeah, but I thought Rossi said he was only selling 1MW plants right now?ladajo wrote:I think it will turn into another hand waving incident.JoeP wrote:Actually, this is a good sign.
The State of Massachusetts will want Rossi to set up shop there if it can be proven he has a bona fide product. They would offer incentives such to have such an industry in the state, if valid. And they are bringing MIT people along to specify terms. Which will include validation, unless you believe that the MIT people are idiots.
Rossi must know there will be these kind of conditions, so the fact that he is even entertaining it is an interesting turn of events.
I agree that it could be a good thing to nail this down once and for all, but I do not see Rossi making an agreement, I see him fishing if he follows his normal routine. Although I hope that he does something concrete for once.
We already saw here recently where someone offered to BUY a 100KW rig on the condition that it works for 48hours under independant test. Rossi said no. It turns out that was also part of the Defkalion issue with Rossi. He wanted money, they wanted a 48hour independant run. No run meant no money.