On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If we are going to do analogies, a more useful one would be to compare the > Rossi reactor to an internal combustion engine ICE. With an ICE you have to > apply the spark periodically to small portions of the fuel to trigger the > reaction. > Right, but the spark is produced from power generated by the engine itself. It's entirely self-sustaining. > Cude is demanding we find a way to ignite the entire tank of fuel with the > spark plug once, and then have the car run normally after that. This does > not work. The car goes up in flames, similar to the way Rossi's reactor > melts. > > > What a terrible analogy. The ecat is not an engine, and I'm not proposing any such thing. I just don't believe that if the reaction producing 1.6 kW thermal is stabilized by an external input of 360 W thermal. I don't see why turning the external off would quench the signal as Dave claims, or why it would melt the ecat as you claim.
