Peter Gluck <[email protected]> wrote: To remain at the Greeks, this magnetic field story is interpreted as > an Achilles' Heel of the story - it is NOT! and 20 times more words > were used for this than for the fact that the Hyperion generates > controllable > copious heat. >
All functioning cold fusion reactors produce heat. There is nothing remarkable about that, so we made no remarks. Rossi's reactors produce copious heat, and it looks pretty much under control. I suppose Defkalion learned many of their techniques from him. (A court will probably have to decide how many, someday.) I do not think they have proved it is fully controllable. I did not see them modulate the reaction or turn it on and off repeatedly. Many conventional energy sources are not fully controllable. Burning coal or wood cannot be turned off. You have to let it burn out. Coal and gas fired generator plants explode from time to time. Portable computer batteries sometimes catch on fire, as did the ones on the Boeing Dreamliner. Fission reactors such as the ones at Fukushima cannot be fully turned off quickly, and they can go badly out of control even after at SCRAM, as we have seen. So, even if cold fusion is not fully controllable, it may still have have practical applications. - Jed
