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ecat. truth or hoax?
  • brianlucebrianluce
    In summary, the E-Cat is a cold fusion (CF) device (the inventor, Andrea Rossi, prefers to term the technology “Low Energy Nuclear Reaction” which appears to be the same thing as CF but a less contentious phrasing). I’ll refer you to my Network World column for a more long-winded explanation of the background and theories about the device.

    The problem with Rossi’s system is that it is too good to be true. It is claimed that the E-Cat only requires some initial heating to start after which the reaction is self-sustaining. The reaction uses a secret catalyst to transform nickel into copper with heat being produced which can be used to make steam, drive a Stirling engine, or be used for whatever you please.

    If this device works as claimed, the world will change and not just a little but hugely and at every level of how we’re organized, how we make stuff, how we travel, and how wealth is distributed. And those changes won’t just impact the US or the Western hemisphere; they will transform the entire world because incredibly cheap energy is the ultimate game changer.

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2011/10/17/hello-cheap-energy-hello-brave-new-world/
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  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev
    Yep, no one will be needing oil anymore. :-)
  • stipstip
    >Yep, no one will be needing oil anymore. :-)

    ...because this new energy will be given away for free and all plastics will be replaced by pure love and happyness.
  • sam_sticklandsam_stickland
    @stip According to the EIA 2006 only 4.6% of the USA's oil consumption was used to make plastics

    http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=34&t=6

    The figures could be higher in bigger manufacturing regions of course.
  • otcxotcx
    Transform nickel into copper sounds strange. Maby i will next make gold out of paper.
  • MihuelMihuel
    @otx
    >Transform nickel into copper sounds strange
    why do you think it strange? Look at the periodic arrays, which differs from nickel-copper?
  • Nino_IlacquaNino_Ilacqua
    hoax, sorry
  • stipstip
    jump to 3:40
    e-cat is going...ehhm...stable




  • brianlucebrianluce
    This could be a huge breakthrough for the Espresso industry.
  • stipstip
    >This could be a huge breakthrough for the Espresso industry.

    you made my day, can't stop laughing.
    I hope that guy's gonna prove us all wrong!
  • BuellerBueller
    This is Bologna. El Mao
  • alcomposeralcomposer
    I can tell you what is starting to feel like a Hoax right now: Panasonic DMC-GH2 Firmware 1.1!

    Look at it this way - VK 3 updates, Panny 1 (Mole)

    On a serious note- wonder if the E-Cat will get small enough to fit on a rig? Mmm... steam punk style!
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