By the numbers:
1) Start with five linked Mills reactors, or one Rossi E-Cat, divided into 5 segments with programmable controllers. 2) Heat the segments in delayed steps up to a trigger temperature using electrical input energy. At this point, a positive feedback loop is established one-by-one, and it will proceed to a runaway if heat is not rapidly removed (the gain is infinite within a range). 3) Within a range above the trigger temperature, hydrogen will be converted to spillover (Rossi) or hydrinos (Mills) rapidly. The reaction is reversible and asymmetric. It is probably the same reaction under different names. 4) There is net gain in the asymmetry, due to either "shrinkage" (Mills) or an unknown nuclear reaction (Rossi) and in either case the 'support' can provide cavity effects. 5) However, either the catalyst or the support becomes progressively saturated over time, and the net gain becomes attenuated. When the first segment to become saturated and starts to cool, it signals the blue box that it is becoming 'inactive' segment and gets immediate electrical input, as well as shared heat from the others. 6) When it is regenerated and back in action, then according to plan, the second (next) cell in the progression becomes saturated and inactive, and the regeneration mode switches over to this one, ad infinitum. 7) A continuous cycle of regeneration is established, such that (for instance) a percentage of the gain in the active segments (or reactors) can help to regenerate (de-saturate) the spent catalyst in an inactive segment; and this regeneration is speeded up at a higher temperature (requiring electrical input). The time required for this is short compared to the run time - thus the high COP. 8) Regeneration would normally decrease the net gain substantially, but that gain was nearly infinite to begin with, due to positive feedback, if unchecked by heat removal. 9) In the end, there will be energy loss due to the sharing arrangement, and additional losses from required electrical current (to raise the regeneration temperature) and the net gain will be reduced from infinite to somewhere around 30:1 if the results seen are accurate. In short, some of the excess thermal energy can be internally recycled for regeneration, but this does not matter, since the positive feedback insures infinite gain up to the point of saturation. Mills may use All that the inventor needs to do for long term success, then - is to stage and coordinate the system properly so that regeneration is built into the operation, and then everything proceeds without overlap. As to why the older small reactors were brought out for a public view after the original demo - this can be explained as Rossi realizing that he has possibly given away too much info; and that he needs to confuse the situation with a large dose of 'misdirection'. Same with the isotope enrichment episode. One of the E-kittens apparently ran for 18 hours, but so one can be sure since Italian physicists like to dine and sleep. But if so, this period may be indicative of the time gap between needed regeneration phases, since the single units cannot do it alone. The regeneration could take far less time at higher temperature, but only the delta-T, so to speak, comes from added electrical current. Warm regards, JB
