COP 6 was for the original Fat Cat E-Cats as used in the 1 MW demo unit.
I suggest the 10 and 20 kW home units, to be delivered in Sept 2012,
will not be anything like the Fat Cats and they will run in self sustain
mode or very close to it. I estimated the control electronics and the
primary circuit circulating pump would consume 400 Watts. With 20 kW
thermal output and 400 Watts electrical input, the COP is 50.
AG
On 1/4/2012 11:25 PM, Energy Liberator wrote:
Where did you get a COP of 50 from? I thought it was 6. Rossi said in
his interview that the running cost would be about 1/6th of a current
conventional boiler running cost.
On 04/01/12 07:52, Aussie Guy E-Cat wrote:
Based on the recently announced 20 kW thermal home E-Cat costing
$1,500 and assuming it draws 0.4 kW (400 Watts) from the mains (COP
50), here is the LCOE and the individual item cost breakdowns.
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/kLBSLYjhfkssP57d3w1J6dMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink
What I find interesting is annual cost of the fuel and servicing is 4
times the Levelized Annual Investment Cost of the E-Cat hardware.
Will home E-Cats become like ink jet printers that are sold near cost
price to get the replacement ink business? But with a LCOE cost of
$0.00456 / thermal kWh who cares? This is just about as close to free
energy as you can get. No excuse for anybody on this planet to be
cold again. With the E-Cat's thermal energy being so low cost,
cleaning up dirty water and desalination of sea / brackish water
should be low cost as well.
Well done Andrea Rossi, what a lovely New Years present to the whole
planet.
