Cold fusion reactor verified by third-party researchers

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/191754-cold-fusion-reactor-verified-by-third-party-researchers-seems-to-have-1-million-times-the-energy-density-of-gasoline

by tammer • 12 years ago

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valarauca1• 12 years ago

You can find the research paper here: [1]

One thing I do want to point out is they did receive some funding from the manufacturer of the device. But it was largely in the way of radiation containment and testing.

Either way they got about 2-3x the power out they put in. Which is promising.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8428103

msie• 12 years ago

Just build a larger prototype and use it to power a car. That will convince me.

AnimalMuppet• 12 years ago

Interesting, but I think I'll withhold judgment until more verification appears (or fails to do so).

rordr• 12 years ago

This guy's been around for years with his device and for some reason things are moving very slowly. This is probably the 3-4th round of testing in the last 4 to 5 years.

tlb• 12 years ago

The heat output measurement process detailed here [0] is deeply fishy. There are simple and accurate ways of measuring output heat, but they were prohibited by the device promoter in favor of a highly unreliable method.

The results are based on using thermal cameras to measure the temperature of the outside of the device, and calculating radiative and convective heat output based on the properties the ceramic material it's made of.

The protocol required by the device promoter was to first measure without fuel at low temperature, then measure with fuel at high temperature. This is fishy. It's possible, for instance, that an impurity in the ceramic causes a thermally insulating film to form at high temperature. There's an obvious way to avoid this error: make a third measurement without fuel at roughly the same high temperature by cranking up the electrical input power. But with such basic checks prohibited, it's impossible to have any confidence in the results.

[0] http://www.sifferkoll.se/sifferkoll/wp-content/uploads/2014/...

juliangoldsmith• 12 years ago

Now let's see someone entirely unaffiliated with the creator verify it. At least one of those researchers, Giuseppe Levi, is known to be friends with Rossi. [0]

[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2013/05/24/the-e-cat-t...

Cold fusion reactor verified by third-party researchers

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