@Jerry:
I hope you are not implying that I can power my house with an atomic bomb.  It has to be practical over unity with no radioactive waste to dispose of.


Chess

If Rossi's home type unit can produce hot enough water then I'll be some inventive types like us can get it to produce electricity.     If it can be turned up enough to produce steam the rest is fairly easy.  Add steam turbine plus generator = Electricity 

@Mr. Coffman:
In an earlier posting of yours, you tried to compare Rossi’s device with a heat pump. This is absolutely preposterous!  Heat pumps have been around for quite some time and if they could equal the performance of the E-Cat in self-sustain mode, then they would be used by the public right now to power their homes.  Now if a heat pump is running your house, right now, then I will apologize for taking your last post in a negative way. 


Regards,

Chess

...These low high-temp-reservoir temperature
devices like both heatpumps and the current
Rossi reactor (ie. non-superheated steam) don't
suit well for an upgraded electrical power
generator. I'd much rather see Rossi working
on increasing the reactor's high temperature
head while he leaves an organization to specify
and build his products.   

And yes, the place where I reside use heatpumps
for heating, as they seem particularly popular around
here.

:S:MarkSCoffman

@Everyone:
It appears that the deal with Rossi's first customer is being worked out after all.  The following quote is from an article appearing yesterday at PESN.COM.

http://pesn.com/2011/10/15/9501934_Cheap_power--An_overnight_revolution--commentary/

"Hopefully this will be the beginning (after the Oct. 28 private test by the first 1 MW customer, which I will be attending) of a favorable barrage, long overdue coverage by the mainstream press and blogs."

Also, here's an excellent article on the E-Cat and its possible impact on the world:

http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2011/101411-backspin.html

I find one statement from the article very interesting.  The following quote from the article is an explanation in detail as to why Rossi's deal with his first customer (here in the U.S.) almost fell through:

"One thing that will slow down the adoption of cold fusion technology is its "nuclear" component that governments and bureaucrats are likely to resist, blocking shipments of components and finished units over unwarranted fears of anything "nuclear". Already, this has impeded this technology that was supposed to have been demonstrated in the United States, were it not for regulation issues in shipping it here."


Regards,

Chess

Chess, I don't want to sound like a Moron, but....

Such a concept, as in destroying the greatest economical power on the planet, is the perfect recipe for war.  Please accept that, as that is the truth.

Such a change, if it is to be, must be spread out over a decade or two to prevent collapse of the existing worldwide economy/infrastructure.  This would be the desired outcome of the "Oil economy controllers".  I don't feel comfortable in explaining it better, or using names to identify specific players.

I hate to say the above things, but reality does, sometimes slap us in the face.  Let us "Hope" that the tech is real, but too expensive initially, so that it can take over slowly.  (Even if it isn't, if you understand my meaning...)

Just a thought to ponder, for those involved in the reality of changing the worlds power base.  (Political or energy, as they ARE related...)

@Dave:
I hope so too because we have been held hostage ever since the Bush administration illegally and secretively allowed the major American oil companies to merge back together creating a huge monopoly.  That is why gasoline prices have skyrocketed from $1.50 a gallon when Bush Jr. first took office to over $5.00 a gallon as he was on his way out.  They gouged the HELL out of Americans.  They still are gouging the HELL out of us all today.  That is what monopolies do.

The Sherman Act is what is supposed to protect us from monopolists like the giant oil cartels.  It was the Sherman Act which forced the breakup of John D. Rockefeller’s oil monopoly in his day with his company named Standard Oil.  The Sherman Act also allowed us to break up other corporate monopolies too, such as the telecommunications monopoly called AT&T. 

This is what happens when the corporate interests get their hands on the political machine.  They install political leaders which do their bidding for them and to hell with the rest of us.  That’s why the economy tanked on us in the first place.  While millions of Americans were losing their homes to foreclosure after getting laid off, the oil companies were turning in record profits.  Billions upon billions of dollars every three months (business cycle quarter).

People had no idea why Bush picked Condoleezza Rice for his cabinet but I did.  It wasn’t because of her political experience.  It was because of her oil expertise as she sat on the board of directors for a company called Chevron for 10 years prior to going to the White House.  Chevron was so pleased with her agenda, they even named a super tanker after her.  That is until the media got wind of the story and Chevron quitely renamed the supertanker.   

So it is also my hope, Dave, that Rossi’s technology will completely and unmercifully destroy the entire oil industry for starters and replace the other energy empires simultaneously. 


Best Regards,

Chess