Search results

Score one for the private sector. In the private sector, you innovate or fade away. I read an article recently where a gov't contractor was charging the gov't around $900 for a switch that only cost ~$7. I'm pretty sure a competitive private sector company could deliver the switch for much less.

It didn't take the Senate long to do exactly as they promised...

Sorry, but your numbers are incorrect. The 2002 to 2009 budgets were signed into law under Bush. According to the website below this post, these 8 budgets added $6.1T to the debt or $762.5Billion per year. http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/histdebt/histdebt_histo5.htm

The reason so many people doubt Cold Fusion is because there hasn't been a single major, jaw dropping scale, technological advance/acheivement since people walked on the moon in 1969. The advance of technology has been almost painfully incremental in nature. A single CPU core for a desktop...

Thx for posting this, J. Cold fusion seems to be "heating" up all of a sudden. In addition to Rossi's claim of having a plant ready later this year, two other groups claim they could have CF products in the market within two years. This is a lot of progress considering the scarcity of funding...

Any spending cuts or taxes will be back loaded into the last 5 years of the 10 years. That way, in 5 years, they can say: we are still in a recession or those will hurt the economy and they won't be implemented. The only issue is if the ratings agencies keep play along...

I'll play devil's advocate and say, in the long run, neither.

Keep in mind that after WWII all the factiries in Germany. Japan, Russia, and China were destroyed or converted to weapons use. So, the US was able to grow the economy by manufacturing. Obviously, we can't manufacture our way out of the problems today.

Just so no one forgets, spending on soc Sec, medicare, and medicaid is mandated by law. So these WILL be paid first if the ceiling is not raised. Then comes interest payments. Any remaining money will be split for defense and other discretionary spending. In numbers for 2010: total tax...

The existing debt is due to excessive pay for Federal gov't employees, excessive military spending, and cost overruns on gov't contracts. NONE of the existing debt is due to social security and medicare. I believe the ratings agencies realize this so they know unless those three issues are...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8SeOteFPtM This link is one of the better videos which actually shows the device working. I still lean towards believing this device works to produce kilowatt range excess energy to some extent. We should find out before the end of the year if/how it works.

Ok. Rossi is using a certain catalyst to supposedly give the orders of magnitude increase in power from typical cold fusion experiments. The key is that Rossi has a catalyst that works while others are still searching for a catalyst. In terms of measurements, recording 8 watts accurately...

Which report is negative? It seems that Rossi's catalyst, which might amplify the fusion, appears to work while the other scientist is still trying to find a catalyst. The point was if a scientist says he can measure ~8watts, then it's hard to see how readings of 3000 watts or more can be...

Here is the link to a scientist, completely independent of Rossi, who was able to clearly measure about 8 watts of cold fusion power using a Ni-H type of setup. It's possible that if this person was able to measure 8 watts, which might be close to the noise floor, the measurements in the...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hVcRggbHrM&feature=related That is a link to a video where Rossi says that, up to the time of the video in March, he has only spent his own money on development of the ecat. It's possible other arrangements could have been made since March, but the risk seemed...

I saw another video today where Rossi states they use some sort of device to verify the steam output is "dry steam" ( 100% vaporized) and not "wet steam" (containing some water). This partially answers one question I had. One's waiting another 3 months isn't too long after waiting almost...

The main possible delay in this could be due to IP concerns and not necessarily the technology. They only have 1 patent in one country as far as I can tell. And, already, people are trying to replicate the Ni-H cold fusion reaction. Obviously, Rossi and the two companies don't want someone...

The other thing people don't realize is, if this works, the e-cat will only be the beginning of cold fusion devices. Just like Henry Ford started out with the model T and now you have supercars, the e-cat would be just the first generation of cold fusion devices. If Rossi could make something...

He is building the first plant alone because he only has a patent in Italy. If others were helping out, they could just steal his work, and file for their own patents. I've read he might have a patent pending in the US but I'm not 100% sure on that. Also, Defkalion won't pay him until the...

I've always believed cold fusion would eventually work, so I'm not a skeptic of this. However, the one experiment I'm not seeing that I feel needs to be done is to connect the steam output into a calorimeter or a calibrated steam turbine or generator to directly measure the energy output...