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I've just 'spent' a 1/4 hour watching this. I am convinced that only 750W is going into the E-cat. Yet, amazingly, it looks like there is perhaps almost 100W of steam coming out! They may well lose 650W per e-Cat, but they intend to make up for it with volume. By connecting 1000 of these e-Cats tog...

It is interesting that in the video the input water appears to be pumped through a double layer tube. He places his finger on this tube at 9:13 only very briefly. I notice in the video around 1:50 and at 9:56 he has no trouble resting his hand and finger on the running e-Cat for several seconds, des...

KitemanSA wrote:You may both be partially correct. It may be possible that someone now knows it CANNOT work. But there is no way they can know that it CAN until they build one of that size.

Point willingly granted.

Enginerd, I think it's fair to say that at this point no one knows for sure whether Polywell will work out. The loss scaling to reactor size needs to be proven, and given the history of confinement scaling across all fusion projects... While that is certainly fair to say about you, and me, and ever...

Shipboard power is the question mark surrounding both weapons. Polywell's success maybe have just gotten a bit more important to ONR... I wonder if we can read between the lines here.... If the Polywell were believed to be a unequivocal success for the Navy, clearly this would motivate the folk pri...

Tom, that's all true and makes good sense, but it is certainly a violation of the rule of law. Because the project is not classified, and is funded by USG, it is subject to FOIA. The way Navy is thwarting the law is to get EMC2 to claim ALL the work is proprietary when it is not. EMC2 is claiming i...

Taking a photo while walking or driving down the street is not illegal nor controlled. Being in public view denotes public access consent IMHO. California's latest anti-paparazzi law provides harsher penalties for photographers found breaking traffic laws or interfering with the operation of a cele...

Antimatter gravity could explain Universe's expansion http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-antimatter-gravity-universe-expansion.html I guess then you would need a really big bottle of Antimatter before you could make effective levitation devices with antimatter gravity -- apparently you would need ...

Giorgio wrote:This is the first time in my life that I see data coming from "many blogs in the Internet " as a data source to try to prove a scientific theory....

A uniquely specious variant on Argumentum ad populum.

Today's Dilbert joins in on the fun:

Why didn’t I think of that? They are all so stupid compared to the critics from Talk-Polywell, they would never notice 3 tons of batteries when then went to pick up the device. Likewise, you can rely on none of them having any sense of smell when the water was collected for measurement. As for the ...

18 hours * 16 kWh = 288 kWh = 1,037 MJ. That is the amount of energy in 26 kg of gasoline (7.9 gallons). Given the size and weight of the device, this rules out a chemical source of energy. A Zinc-Air battery can store 0.21 kWh/kg. So if they were hiding some of the very best batteries available in...

Not even hints? All the gentlemen involved in the tests are idiots or liars? Things are not always that simple. Lots of people believe in miracles and angels and aliens. Some people even believe that solar and wind energy will be able to power all human societies. That does not make them idiots or ...

The nickel-hydrogen invention that Rossi came up with is at risk. At this time, there might not be enough people knowing the secret to protect it if Rossi disappears. I do not know if this is a scam. If it is a scam, I am quite sure he will pay dearly for it eventually. However, it might not be a s...

MSimon wrote:So I want an explanation of all the energy they aren't getting.

Perhaps (assuming for one moment this isn't simply smoke and mirrors), the extra energy is being expended producing copper and other heavier elements with high binding energy.