I think its unlikely that semiconductors are inside. At the september demo the temperature was 120° and if 3 cores are in opereation I would expect more. A single case of overheating would damage the system and Rossi claims a maximum temp of abaout 450°. Also all these gamma and possibly neutron bursts that have been observed could degrade the semiconductors.
----- Original Nachricht ---- Von: Aussie Guy E-Cat <aussieguy.e...@gmail.com> An: vortex-l@eskimo.com Datum: 10.11.2011 05:38 Betreff: [Vo]:Inside the inner box > I have been thinking about what should be inside the inner box as the > heat transfer from the reactor core to the fluid is no longer done > inside the door knob like reactor. > > Rossi says there are 3 cores inside each module and that is all he says. > I would suggest he may have encased all the cores inside a solid lead > slab like structure with a thermal interface compound applied to the top > and bottom surfaces so as to thermally transfer the heat into the upper > and assumed lower fin assemblies. What we see with the bolts is the > upper surface of the heat exchanger assembly and likely an identical > assembly (why make it different) on the bottom. The lead slab with the > embedded cores is then sandwiched inside and between the heat exchanger > fin assemblies. I also suggest as he said the 1 MW demo was only running > on 1 core per module, he has a was to activate and deactivate the > internal cores as desired. This adds additional weight to my belief that > the "RF Wires" are actually multi core shielded cable or if not he maybe > running a power line comms system that delivers both power and 2 way > data to the 3 cores. Easy to do today, especially if he has a micro > inside to assist the core control and do data logging that can be later > accessed for analysis. > > Having a solid lead slab structure would aid modular maintenance and > module fuel replacement as all the the maintenance guys would need do is > replace the lead slab with the 3 embedded reactor cores, which would > then be returned to Rossi for replacement of the fuel. > > From the weight of the E-Cat module, there is more inside the boxes > than just 3 door knob reactors, a bit of piping, fins, walls and a few > nuts and bolts. > >
