Yesterday many of us discovered (to our surprise and delight) that the eCat saga is far from dead. I had all but written my CAPS LOCK obsessed Italian friend off, but I have always left the door ever so slightly open for him – and to my surprise he’s booted it off the hinges and now I need a joiner.
It’s been a long time coming (nearly two years), but we finally have an independent report (of sorts). I am aware that pseudosceptics will argue that some of the professors conducting the test are long time acquaintances and advocates of Rossi, but the length of these tests and involvement of three different world class universities is hard to argue with.
“We do not draw any conclusions, but we point out that the test gives an abnormal heat that is far beyond that possible with chemical reactions, says Bo Höistad, emeritus professor of nuclear physics and the representative of the group.”
“To learn more about what is going on, we need to see what has happened with the fuel. In order to even talk about a nuclear transformation, we need to see waste. If there are no conversions at all in the fuel, then this is totally incomprehensible.”
This is only one report and from what I can gather from the more technically competent people in the field – there are ways in which the test could have been done better to alleviate their concerns and there are those who would pick holes in Stephen Hawkings theories from the comfort of their armchair. However, it has to be said that the report is very clear in it’s outcome “Computed volumetric and gravimetric energy densities were found to be far above those of any known chemical source. Even by the most conservative assumptions as to the errors in the measurements, the result is still one order of magnitude greater than conventional energy sources.”
There is still much to play for in this ongoing story and the mention of proper calorimetry being conducted, but I’ll say this for Rossi – he plays a brilliant poker game, playing an ace when many of us thought he’d cashed in his chips and for that I give him my WARM REGARDS.
Game on.