Jeff Sutton <jsutton.sudb...@gmail.com> wrote: "He has shown it in "self-sustaining" mode but always shuts it down after a few hours with some excuse. Why does he do that when the blockbuster note would be "the ecat just keeps on going." I suggest this must mean that the ecat cannot just keep on running for 6 months has he notes; at least in self-sustaining mode. . . ."
Did he say it can go 6 months in self-sustaining mode? I don't recall hearing that. He said that one of them ran for a year or so in Italy -- the address was listed in a patent. But I do not think it was self-sustaining the whole time. I don't know if it was self-sustaining at all. The data from that patent always shows some input power. Technologically, there is no point to a self-sustaining reaction. A reaction with a low level of input power to control it is better. Rossi has said lately that 6 hours is about the limit of a self sustaining reaction. The reasons are unclear. Maybe it peters out. Or does it go out of control? Who knows. - Jed
