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LM stuff is conceptual. I believe when all "high power density" (as defined by the Lawson criteria) plasma containment designs were reduced to practice, unknown/unexpected plasma instabilities were observed.
bigmoose said:Here is a guy that I have been studying the past week, Andrea Rossi. He is an Italian inventor of the eCat or E-Catalyizer. It is a device in the genre of Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR). If this is real it will revolutionize the world. Oil will be for lubrication only.
Andrea claims the following for his device:
Utilizes nickel powder and simple hydrogen
Utilizes a trade secret catalyst in the device
The small "lemon" sized eCat produces ~7 times the input heater power or about 7 Kw out
It can run for up to 6 months on a load of nickel powder
It can run without out input heaters, so called self sustain mode of 7 Kw out for "a while"
It is currently optimized to produce 100 degC steam
Negligible radiation outside of shielding
Post reaction products are radiation free
Andrea "talks" a lot, so there are a lot of info trails on the net. Some of them say that a large reactor ran away in the spring and produced over 120 Kw during the event. The linked video says there is a burst of gamma rays when the eCat "lights off" which would be a signature of a nuclear event. All the video's show folks working in very close proximity to eCat's that are in operation, and there is no mention of health effects.
There is a statement in the video that he used a unit to heat his laboratory for a year or so successfully.
Here is a picture of Rossi with four eCats with the exterior open. The outside plumbing is copper pipe from a hardware store it looks like.
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Here is a close up of the reaction chamber:
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Here are the two Swedish scientists he allowed in and gave some spent Ni powder to for them to analyize. They found Copper isotopes in the Ni after the runs, perhaps indicitaive of transmutation.
Here is a video where Rossi leads you through his device:
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Here is a "news" type analysis of his device:
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What do you think? Is it real? Will Rossi eCat's be the future for the world? Like all reality, Rossi is not perfect, he has a failed oil recycling company that got into pretty deep trouble with the Italian government in years past. The video says he has contracted with the University of Balogna to study his device at the cost of 500K euro. Is he for real, or is this a complex fraud?
I don't know yet, though I am earnestly hopeful that the process is a true success.Is this for real?
Not just complex, but, apparently also quite expensive, if it is not legit.....or is this a complex fraud?
fechter said:The Lockheed reactor appears to be 'conventional' hot fusion, like the sun. They just claim to have figured out a way to keep million degree plasma contained at a density high enough to sustain a reaction. No easy trick.
Rossi's invention requires a shift in understanding, but 'cold' fusion has been around for long enough that people are starting to figure out some of the secrets. Whether Rossi's thing actually works or is just a scam is yet to be seen, but I think it is possible.
Hillhater said:Obviously individual home/vehicle power units would be the ultimate,
However, just having a safe, clean, low cost(??) infinite energy source would be a paradyme shift in so many ways.
It immediately changes the basis of world politics in ways hard to imagine, as well as totally refocusing financial markets.
But,..not all of these changes would be for the better necessarily !
Modbikemax said:Can you imagine a world full of red necks with guns and a fusion reactor? It's bad enough we let them have guns.
Dauntless said:Modbikemax said:Can you imagine a world full of red necks with guns and a fusion reactor? It's bad enough we let them have guns.
"Hooooeeeeeeeee, Ethel, that new fusion reactor on the still is givin' more kickaboo joy juice than I got jugs. Mebbe if I shoot a few holes in the bottom. . . ."
nechaus said:I saw on the news last night that there are some towns or communities in australia that plan or are currently building a community off grid renewable power system..
but i do agree... give an idiot/bogan a 1000 volt/5kw pv system.. I picture a LCD screen counting the days since the last incident, and it does not seem to make it past 30 days :?
even if the voltage kept at 12 volts, there will still be that lcd screen counting days since the last fuse that blows.
Many years ago, as part of a seriously misguided indigeneous resettlement programm, the Au government built a series of small community " stations" of 4-10 houses in remote areas, that were powered by large solar arrays with battery banks in containers.nechaus said:I saw on the news last night that there are some towns or communities in australia that plan or are currently building a community off grid renewable power system...
megacycle said:Solar farms should have been the Australian, primary source of solar PV, but the Howard government had the brilliant idea of introducing the hotch-potch domestic rooftop PV program, typical right wing, there was probably more $$'s in it for their pockets somewhere.
Probably right with the grab for votes and that silly, competitive, pseudo - individualist, neoconservative attitude, that means a screw up of proper policy making, that could of lead to much more efficient/effective (by an order of magnitude)solar farms and power stations, that could also agument the network parameters, even at night, instead they give us this mess and now consequently want to screw the RET, LNP fools.Modbikemax said:More likely a grab for votes. There is certainly no money in it except for a few carpetbaggers. Power bills have gone up in WA partly to pay for over generous feed in tarriffs. Contribution to the power grid is almost zero and according to Western Power a pain in the arse in over supplied suburbs. Pretty much a waste of time and money. Most systems are poorly installed and of such low quality they no longer work or won't for much longer. There is one in my street which has the shade of a tree on it all day . We have a 60% reserve capacity for days when we all turn on our air conditioners which we were told to install by the same power company to save power? Go figure.
September 10, 2018
Andrea Rossi had been reporting recently on the Journal of Nuclear Physics that his team at Leonardo Corporation had been testing two E-Cat SK reactors rated at 10 kW each to see if they would be suitable for building the first industrial E-Cat plants.
Rossi says that last night (Saturday, September 8th 2018) they decided that they have decided to use the SK reactors instead of the smaller 1kW QX E-Cats. He had said that they would run a 10-day test, but it apparently only was six days, having started on Monday.
Rossi had admitted that moving ahead with the E-Cat SK does entail some risk, since it has not been put through the months-long Sigma 5 testing that the smaller QX reactor went through, but it is a risk he is willing to take apparently. He stated
“the Sigma 5 reaches with the Ecat QX helps the trust in the SK version.”
So what happens next? I asked Rossi this question and his answer was simply “industrialization.” As far as when the first plants would be delivered to customers, he wrote to Gerard McEk this: “We will begin to deliver in 2019, surely not in January. By January we would start the production.”
As best as I can understand things, the actual starting of industrial production had been on hold until Leonardo had decided which reactors they would be building. Now that decision has been made, one would expect that they would start to move onto production.
We will have to wait and see how things progress now. The next important public event will be the product introduction of E-Cat products which Rossi has said he hopes to hold in January. I don’t think he will hold that event unless they have had success with the production process by that time.
MIAMI (PRWEB) JANUARY 21, 2019
Leonardo Corporation is pleased to announce that it will be presenting the worldwide introduction of its E-Cat SK product, a revolutionary cost-efficient clean energy technology, in a live streaming broadcast on January 31, 2019.
The E-Cat operates on the basis of physical principles which allow for energy production at power densities far higher than with fossil fuels. No radioactive fuels are used, and no radioactive waste is produced. The E-Cat SK produces kilowatts of energy while consuming only grams of inexpensive and abundant fuel (hydrogen, nickel, lithium) over a period of six months. E-Cat reactions do not involve any chemical combustion, so no greenhouse gas emissions are produced.
The E-Cat’s inventor, Andrea Rossi states, “I am delighted to have arrived at the point where I can introduce an industrial product to the world. My goal has always been not only to demonstrate an important discovery in a laboratory, but also to implement it into useful products that can have important benefits for mankind. E-Cat technology will allow businesses to become more profitable through the reduction of their thermal energy costs, and at the same time they will be reducing negative environmental impacts.” Dr. Rossi has patented the E-Cat in the United States (US patent no. US 9,115,913 B1) and the patent has also been granted in all of Europe, China, Russia, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Australia, South Africa, and is pending in other countries.
The E-Cat SK is a product designed to be used in industrial settings where heat is required, ranging from simple space heating to applications where high temperatures are needed, including electricity generation.
Leonardo’s business model is based on delivering heat as a service. Leonardo retains ownership of the E-Cats and will install and remotely operate them. Customers pay for heat delivered at costs that will always be significantly lower (at least 20 percent lower) than the cost of any other energy source the customer may use.
The live broadcast will begin on January 31st at 9:00 a.m. US Eastern time at http://www.ecatskdemo.com. Live participants will be able to submit questions to Dr. Rossi who will answer them live during the presentation. Instructions on how to submit questions will be provided at the website above at the commencement of the presentation. The event will be recorded and be made available for later viewing.
Companies interested in discussing possible incorporation of E-Cat technology in their industrial operations are invited to contact Leonardo Corporation at info@leonardocorp1996.com
Brillouin Energy Awarded Patent For Its Potentially World Changing Fusion Reactor
European Union Issues Patent for Controlled Electron Capture Reaction
January 31, 2019 08:15 AM Eastern Standard Time
BERKELEY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Brillouin Energy Corp., a leading company in the Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) field, announced that it has obtained a significant Patent associated with its design for a potentially world-changing “Hydrogen Hot Tube”, or “HHT™” reactor system from the European Union Patent Office. The Patent, which has been issued for a crucial component of the HHT reactor system, the “Controlled Electron Capture Reaction” (CECR) for “Energy Generation Apparatus and Method”, is dated September 26, 2018.
EU Patent awarded for Brillouin Energy’s Controlled Electron Capture Reaction (CECR) associated with its world-changing #HHT reactor system is another step forward for making clean energy available and affordable to everyone.
Brillouin Energy has made significant progress since the last quarter of 2017, when it was making a few Watts of controlled LENR (excess) reaction heat on a consistent and repeatable basis. In the last five months, the Company has reached the stage where it is now reliably able to produce 50 to 60 Watts of controlled LENR (excess) reaction heat with a Coefficient of Power (COP) consistently over 2.25 times (2.25X energy output vs. energy input) within its HHT™. As these COP results continue to rise, Brillouin Energy’s CECR technology continues to move closer to being able to power up to 30,000 homes for one year on the amount of hydrogen contained in the volume of an average glass of water.
“We are on the cusp of a new era of cheap, abundant and reliable power from LENR-based systems, at a time when the United States and many other countries are re-examining their approaches for supporting clean energy technologies,” said Robert W. George, Chief Executive Officer, Brillouin Energy.
The CECR Patent issued by the EU is one of the Company’s primary patents describing the underlying physics for controlled pulsed power stimulation of an LENR reaction. It outlines the practical technique for inducing and controlling the reaction within a metallic lattice. The reaction produces a large amount of thermal energy, and an extremely small amount of inert (harmless) helium. Other than this primary heat output, there are no toxic, radioactive or CO2 byproduct emissions of any kind.
Brillouin Energy’s HHT™ reactor system is designed to operate at temperatures between 100°C to 700°C depending on application. It uses a very small amount of hydrogen gas with a nickel-metal catalyst to produce LENR heat on a highly controlled basis. This will be suitable in meeting industry’s needs for clean, cheap modular heat and power at the point of demand.
Yep I watched it all and couldn't believe it. The echo from a perhaps empty garage, and perhaps three people on chairs and a bare concrete floor (because of the echo). He kept talking about the "dancing ballerina" plasma picture, but no details, or state of the art instrumentation with calibrations. No explanation of the two graphs on the left of the segmented picture. This is not science, this is not even a high school science fair. Never would give the measured COP, only a calculated one from the chart paper.fechter said:Amazing as it may seem, Rossi is still at it and still getting money from investors.
I can't figure out what his endgame is. His approach doesn't really make sense if the goal is to monetize a scam invention. Unless he really does think it works; he may be able to delude himself sufficiently to keep that belief alive.bigmoose said:If he has it, the worse management of technologies possible. He thinks he can keep secret the innards. Once someone "big" gets their hands on a unit it will reveal all. If he doesn't have it, it is now a parlor charade. What a let down.