From: Alain Sepeda Jacques RUER have demonstrated using standard engineering that - if you have a low COP LENr reactor proven - if there is a positive temperature feedback then you can engineer a device with any desired COP.
https://www.iscmns.org/work12/RuerJpreventingtherm.pdf True, but unfortunately for us … “if” is the longest word in the English language. In short, there is NO positive thermal feedback mechanism in LENR. We all wish that there was such a mechanism, and for a while it looked like there could be but it was a house of cards. The closest thing we have which is proved is so-called “heat after death” but that is a short term phenomenon and cannot be demonstrated “on demand” so it cannot be stacked or looped. It goes without saying that when the gain of LENR is converted to electricity first, and that COP (thermal to electric) exceeds unity then the inventor can loop the output and win the Nobel prize. No one has done that but obviously it would HUGE if and when someone can loop output and input. As of now a COP of 1.5 is hopelessly low in the commercial sense but of great scientific interest. A thermal gain at modest temperatures requires at COP of about 4 – in order to loop output with input. There is indeed strong evidence for COP of 1.5 at 50 watt output but no way to get the COP higher since positive thermal feedback is a myth that crashed with Rossigate. To be fair, Mitchell Swartz consistently demonstrates high COP levels in subwatt experiments, but there is no independent evidence that an array of subwatt devices can be stacked to bring the output up to the tens of watts level over an extended period and self-power. Ahern and myself keep telling Mitchell that the Nobel prize is his when he can hand over such a looped device to be tested independently. The same recognition would be true of Brillouin or anyone else. You know all this, Alain, so please excuse the cut-and-past - but unless all sides of the COP argument appear in the same thread, the message will be misinterpreted by those who want LENR to be something which it is not. Again, that situation can change overnight with independent proof of self-power.
