Andrea Rossi has started commercializing ECAT nuclear fusion devices

Re:Andrea Rossi has started commercializing ECAT nuclear fus... by lutusp on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @10:30AM (#6801848)

You're missing the point that, if the claims were real, 200 KW of the claimed output power of 1 MW cold be used to sustain the reaction, thus removing the input power requirement. This kind of "fact sheet" can only persuade people who don't understand physics.

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Re:Andrea Rossi has started commercializing ECAT nuclear fus... by dublinben on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @10:55AM (#6802018)

I'm pretty sure this is a scam/hoax. I was just trying to explain how the initial claim itself was at least plausible.

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Re:Andrea Rossi has started commercializing ECAT nuclear fus... by lutusp on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @05:42PM (#6804839)

> I was just trying to explain how the initial claim itself was at least plausible.

If the author had wanted to be plausible, he would not have mentioned the required input power. That's a dead giveaway and show-stopper, because anything remotely real would not have that requirement.

If the units can deliver five times their input heat energy, then 1/5 of the output energy can be used to sustain the reaction. That's not difficult to grasp.

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