*If memory serves, someone on vortex saw that the internal heater was pulsed from looking at a movie of a scope either in the first or a very early demo.*
* * *I would think that an alternating plasma would increase the production of Rydberg matter since RM condenses out of the plasma as the ions cool.* * * On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Jeff Sutton <[email protected]>wrote: > Agreed regarding self-sustaining time and there is something in the > reactor that needs to be "reset". I suggest however, that simply adding > heat again cannot be it as that is saying one type of heat is different > from the other. > > Is the heater a DC device or AC with some important frequency? > > On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Jeff Sutton <[email protected]> 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 >> >> >
