It would seem relatively simple with both HEAT and ELECTRICITY produced by Rossi’s E-Cat X to make a jet engine. Intake air compressed to higher pressures and temperatures with an electrically powered turbine/fan much like those used in large jets today could be adapted readily. This may be what Alain calls a “Brayton turbine”.
There may be a good option to use two separate LENR reactors, one to produce electricity and one to heat the intake air. As suggested by Jed, reliability of the device will take some time to achieve, although there is a lot of existing technology associated with high temperature rotating machines, turbines and rockets. I would think that a good electric motor in an airplane turning props would be the first application. In fact I believe Airbus and probably Boeing have a design of an electric airplane which uses batteries for its energy source. LENR electrical production seems like a natural improvement for charging batteries and gaining reliability, power and range. Bob Cook From: Alain Sepeda Sent: Monday, December 28, 2015 1:07 AM To: Vortex List Subject: Re: [Vo]:Whopper of the Week 2015-12-27 23:45 GMT+01:00 Lennart Thornros <lenn...@thornros.com>: I take Rossi's statement as an indication that they can see openings to create a propulsion unit for airplanes. ... As I understood, the term "Jet Reactor" seems more to mean a "Brayton turbine", probably closed cycle like the old nuclear reactor planes. Brayton turbine are the most dense, but yes it requires high temperature. If you accept the nameplate temperature of 1200-1400C (whether it was measured at lugano is a question, but assuming E-cat is real this temperature must not be incoherent for Rossi, or he would have informed the testers) a brayton turbine is not so absurd. Even the temperature observed at Ferarra (confirmed by TC) would allow Brayton cycle. beside that as said here the biggest problem maybe cooling. there are bleeding edge technology that I've seen few years ago for high density airflow radiators. Heat to power conversion is really the most complex engineering problem. I'm more confident in LENR nanotech improvement once billions are flowing, because billion have flown for turbines since decades.
