thumperclone wrote on 01/22/16 at 13:35:44:


Not a fuel cell, takes in no natural gas or propane to do it's tricks.

Low Energy Nuclear Reaction = LENR    Not fission, not really even fusion -- ladder stepped isotope transformations

A radiation free way of taking hydrogen gas (derived from breaking down lithium aluminum hydride with heat) deep into a metallic nickel atomic matrix, swapping some electrons, combining them with protons to make neutrons, and transmuting various atoms inside the matrix into the next thing up in the isotope chart, and potentially eventually pumping up some of the nickel atoms all the way up into the next element in the periodic table, copper.  

Transformation energy, by little steps and stages, gently released with all radiation absorbed by the next atoms over and converted to simple heat.

This is a newly discovered natural phenomena that apparently takes place in volcanoes and the earth's core (they always just told us "radioactivity" heated the earth's core, but they could never explain why volcanoes weren't radioactive) and is now suspected to take place inside metal vapor halide lights to some much lesser degree.

When done intentionally, you can make heat, lots of it, for a period of about a year right now off a mass of powdered nickel about the size of a cigarette filter.   Or laid out thin on both sides of a wafer of steel, with more layers added on as needed for more heat / greater durability.

Science is just now proposing the mechanisms to do this, now that they ARE seeing it take place in their labs, now since they got off their 25 year old cold fusion hate kick and actually started looking again.

That was a thought I had too, can the current generated sustain the Ecat via it's own DC power? with some leftover for the home's electrical system? this is really a cool concept

this is why I'm not part of a regulatory board, that didn't even occur to me  

 
http://www.e-catworld.com/2016/01/27/rossi-all-the-energy-sources-must-be-int...

Rossi has made some very interesting comments in the last month about the upcoming roll out -- that it "must be completely integrated with existing infrastructures" or it simply will not proceed in the USA.

I think he has just told us what the USA delay is --- DISRUPTION FUD --- disruption is not going to be allowed in the USA, Rossi's stuff must come out in line with existing infrastructures or it won't come out at all.

I think that the USA is going to quickly learn that there are other markets with no stick up their butts and that our political/industrial complex is going to have to learn how to change and adapt more quickly, even it it hurts a little.

Next, if Rossi gets held up long enough, his tech will get swiped from him and come out from all sorts of interesting corners of the globe.

Rossi's keepers had better be careful of the boy, or somebody is going to kill him out of sheer irritation.

The Black Swan is flying over the associated support industries now, and is depressing stock markets all over the world.

Vested interests are looking at 10's of billions of dollars in stranded assets as refineries and offshore derricks and all sorts of expensive stuff becomes rusting scrap metal.

What the Italians have just done is to signal "Yes, you can do this stuff a variety of different ways" and you CANNOT STOP the entire world community from figuring it out and doing it.

Would it be better for Rossi to do it in a controlled fashion, or have a gigantic international free-for-all?

This is the question before the politicos right now .....

Every "Engineering renowned" university is growing a very small LENR department now.   Every affected automotive and heating and utility company has appointed a senior level Engineering Resource to go find out about LENR, ASAP.

The Black Swan swooping past overhead has gotten their attention now, and they are running around trying to pick up a black swan feather or two of their very own.

The one year old 1 megawatt steam plant had a single reactor core (the weakest of the two weak ones) try to drop out again -- Rossi was able to modify the excitement a bit and brought it back up to snuff again.   Self-sustain periods are way down though, so it is showing him that that particular mix is not what is going to be used going forward and even if he can get it to go the full one year that one particular core is just about shot.

But "just about shot" to Rossi has a COP that is still better than what the others have gotten at optimum running conditions, so let's keep a tight grip on what he's considering "just about shot".

He also mentioned the series of ECat-X tests he is doing, where he gathers standard run data for a bit then accelerates them at the end of the data collection period, ramping them up by stages to the destruction level.  

What he seems to be doing is testing the fail safe characteristics and the abrupt end of life behaviors due to terminal overheating after he gets his electrical and heat generation numbers off of each of the trials.

Everyone else is just trying to get their stuff to just work reliably, Rossi is end of life safety series testing a potential commercial product .....  in an organized fashion UL would recognize.

Some are saying he hopes to put out an ECat-X reactor that self-limits at the upper end of things and stops short of destruction and never actually melts itself down -- and that my friends would be quite an accomplishment.

http://www.e-catworld.com/2016/01/30/new-mfmp-glowstick-test-underway/






And yes, you can ask "Does that mean what I think it means?"