Kahuna wrote:Rossi gave a lengthy interview on SmartScarecrow Show yesterday recorded here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP5cG-36Bag
Summary (per Aussie Guy on Vortex):
10 kW home E-Cat is the size of a portable computer.
Rossi calls the recharges "Energy Sticks", fits with the ball point pen refill statement.
Replacement is simple and can be done by anyone.
No H2 canisters used. Reactor stores and recycles the H2. Only uses picograms of H2.
Reactor control is via regulation of operational heat point.
Fuel lasts 4,320 operational hours (180 days at 24 hours a day).
E-Cat will signal when refill is needed.
Customer can purchase several refills and keep them in stock.
Cost of the refill to the customer will be $10 plus installation if needed.
Will be available via internet sales.
Home units will run in self sustain mode.
512 keV 180 deg Gammas have been detected.
1st 1 MW plant is in modification. Should be operation in 1 - 2 months.
12 additional 1 MW plants are being built.
1 additional 1 MW plant has been sold to another customer.
UL certification of the home E-Cat is in process.
2.7 to 2.9 kWs needed for 1 hour to start the home 10 kW E-Cat.
Home E-Cat has only 1 reactor.
Rossi claims the RFG helps the Coulomb barrier work with the reaction and not against it.
First E-Cat factory is in Florida. Rossi is going to Massachusetts to further discuss building another E-Cat plant there.
Home E-Cat production will start in the US fall. Sales will start in the US winter.
Rossi is not interested in family investors as the business is still risky.
Large hedge funds are welcome but only with a small % investment.
Does plan to go public.
Home E-Cat has a 30 year expected life.
Customer price between $400 to $500 for a home E-Cat 10 kW thermal unit.
Interesting excerpts and some comments on the claims.
Portable computer size claims? Even if 10 KW of heat is generated, this is thermal heat. If he can convert this heat energy into electrical energy in a portable computer sized device he has another remarkable discovery.
500 KeV gammas? , how does he shield against this in this small package?, and as asked, what the heck does the 180 degrees refer to? Is that the heat contribuion of the gammas (which would be highly lethal in a short amount of time if not heavily shielded- and constant. And if not constant, then not one but two unknown physics processes must be assumed.), are they polarized, or have some preferred exit vector as opposed to being isotropic?
Hydrogen recycled? If so, then where is the heat energy coming from? Is it a free energy device?
If pico grams of hydrogen are used, does he have any idea of how much hydrogen this is?
Assume this amount of hydrogen is used per hour. That would be 0.000000000000001 grams/ hr (10^-12). Even if you assume that each hydrogen used generates 10 MeV of energy, compared to ~ 1 eV for a chemical reaction involving hydrogen, you are talking about a gain of 10^7. This means you would need 10^7 hydrogens to generate as much energy as one hydrogen in the E-Cat. But he claims only 1 pico gram of hydrogen used per hr*, This means the energy output would be 10^7/ 10^-12 = 10^-5 . Thus the output would be comparable to burning ~ 0.01 milligram of hydrogen chemically per hour. Who out there actually thinks this would provide 10 KW of heat output? The numbers are complete nonsense.
* I assumed his claim of one pico gram hydrogen consumption is per hr. If it is 1/ cycle (~ 160 days), the numbers are even more ridiculous. If the rate is per second, then the energy output would still be comparable to less than 0.1 gram of hydrogen burning chemically/ hr or ~ 0.0003 milligrams of hydrogen chemically burning per second.
If Rossi is going to throw out such numbers he should at least do some homework, so that his claims are consistent with each other, or at least a hint of reality. Note that this analysis assumes that his energy out claims are real. Even with this this completely unsupported assumption, his subsequent claims are extremely ridicules.
Dan Tibbets
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