Rossi announces his finalized power levels after he started running a new one month qualification test series for the SK reactor. (Rossi has already gotten the first weeks run data which has led to the new "finalized" power levels announcements).All of this is in preparation for the BIG PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT and the first small assembly line production start up (with kick off demonstration) planned for Januart 31 of 2019.So far Rossi has not melted his stuff down like Mills has done (repeatedly) and Rossi has a significant business partner now in ABB to do "nanny duty" for him and that nanny partner has all the knowledge and skilled resources that keep Rossi both on track and productive. ABB does power generation, and they do robotics and they do automated assembly lines and they have a world-wide distribution network.
A most excellent match for a Rossi business partner.
QX unit has settled in at a 1 kilowatt QX output level (thick pencil / pen marker sized reactor) and a SK unit (half a coke can tall, smaller diameter than a coke can) that is now earmarked for a conservative 10 Kilowatt output. These are the two sizes Rossi will be going with for public introduction and his "you buy the heat, we own the equipment" first business plan.
The SK can obviously put out more heat than this, as can the QX ---- but by coming in out of the gate a little conservatively Rossi can provide a more settled environment with enough "backup units are already installed in your initial set up" for full redundancy in those first installations.
Why all the caution ???? Rossi also has to ABSOLUTELY HAVE THE THINGS LAST THE FULL ADVERTISED PERIOD, which is a hard claim to make since he hasn't actually run them that long without changing something.
And most importantly not doing any melting down, ever. Randal Mills has made everyone very sensitive to this meltdown thing by melting his latest sun cell stuff down jest too too too many times in a row now.
Not having any bobbles or failures is VERY important to Rossi right now. His first new users have to get what they ordered power-wise in a calm bobble free fashion. This means if the things go in in banks, Rossi can safely switch off an entire bank for maintenance while working the full load off of the other bank (or banks, since some installations seem to be relatively larger). His redundancy factor is large right now as his formal reliability track record is being discovered here as he goes.
Running under lighter stress and at lower power levels is simply smart business right now, less bobbles and less chance of a heat spike/meltdown.
Rossi has hinted at larger Tiger-sized reactors are in the development pipeline again, which will be a good thing when they are finished up. However, right now the larger "super powered output levels" ares out of favor at the moment due to Randal Mills nasty habit of keeping on keeping on melting down his bigger units, jest a
melting them down into glowing slag repeatedly which stupid activity is scaring his investors away in droves ......

So, Mills Brilliant Power is out of the picture at the moment due to another full scale large (total reactor is gone yet again) meltdown.
Randal Mills has no current proven working design, in other words. Harsh, but true.
Deneum (up a post or two from this one) is the only working semi-competitor Rossi has right now but they are still fairly experimental and quite small in nature. They just did some demos and collected a few million dollars in new funding, however.
https://youtu.be/g1e3jPOTQZg this is Deneum's current installed level
Brillouin is way way down on output power compared to Rossi or Mills, and as such is not a serious contender any longer for commercial implementation. Brillouin (and Industrial Heat who owns a majority share) are trying to sell their ideas in the Middle East to raise some investment money, but are getting no takers at the moment.
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Something new is being openly discussed, and that is what the transformation actions are doing to the reactor vessels in all of these various systems that Bob Greenyer at MFMP has looked at over the last year,
and most specifically a lot of the materials changes information are coming from the used LION reactors which were given to MFMP be studied.
The LENR transformation stuff is actually changing the reactor vessel walls, putting a predictable "end of function life" to these cells
which tends to explains why Rossi always insists on using small replaceable reactor cells in all his stuff. He realizes that the reactor units basic structural walls and electrical elements each have a function life span issue due to what happens inside them at the atomic level, apart from just using up the fuel in the cell.
What changes ???? This is all very short range activity, but the atoms of the stuff the reactor is made from change over time, salting in lots of isolated replacement transformed atoms inside these solid materials. The integrity of the materials shifts, in other words.
Mankind's knowledge of "stuff" is gonna change due to LENR ---- right now we see elemental things as immutable and really, they are not really so fixed at all.
And the thought that elements can only form inside a supernova ---- wrong.
Completely wrong.