On Nov 21, 2011, at 12:07 PM, David ledin wrote:
A person named Chan has posted a descriptive method of replicating a version of the ecat on www.buildecat.com and claim reached self sustained fusion at 200 C for days. http://www.buildecat.com/blog_detail/the-chan-formula-4.html
Good grief. Mineral oil is a fuel: heat of combustion of 45.7 MJ/kg, better than coal, fire point coincidentally 196°C. Chan is probably producing low rate controlled ignition using continuous RF electric discharge at 200°C local operating temperature.
Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/