Robin <mixent...@aussiebroadband.com.au> wrote:
> I fell asleep about half way through. The "lead" was buried so deep (if it > even exists) that I just gave up. > They talk about producing 10-20 watts of excess heat, but what percentage > is that of the total? Do they mention it > anywhere? This is gas loading, so there is no input power. It is all gravy. I mean there is no direct input power. Not like electrolysis. Granted, the reactor has to be heated to ~800°C or it does nothing. No doubt that takes external electricity in this experiment. But in a practical insulated reactor, it would self-heat. After it reached the operating temperature of ~800°C you could turn off the external heater. 10 W from 20 g of material is excellent performance for an experiment. It is easy to measure. The calorimeter precision is ~0.2 W. 800°C would give excellent Carnot efficiency. However this is still far below the power per gram from something like a fission reactor pellet, which is 180 W/12 g (1 cubic centimeter).
