To ever use this tech in cars would require quick warm up - the steamers of the 1910s and 1920s could build up enough steam in a few minutes. If warm up is slow, they would have to use battery until enough steam available for elec generation in a series hybrid. Another reason (larger batteries in addition to limited lithium sources for the batteries required) that this tech is hindered compared to internal combustion for automobiles. Maybe suitable for steam ships or steam/electric of subs. Small scale steam turbines may not work in this auto size, probably would have to be piston steam generator. Ni-H's contribution to auto would be to keep oil prices down, that's plenty of help.
There's no reason to hope Ni-H will do much for transportation - very efficient solutions using oil are already there. There are myriad areas using many therms where the process heat of Ni-H could quickly take over and reduce costs. No reason to try to adapt a pure heat source to take over the gas pressure to kinetic energy of internal combustion. ----- Original Message ----- From: Alain Sepeda To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 3:55 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY in the discussion about cars and e-cat/defkalion I was assuming time to switch on of about 5 minute, taken from defkalion (most of my computation are from defkalion hyperion) today rossi give an answer about time to switch on/off http://faq.ecat.com/115733/will-an-e-cat-be-able-to-be-switched-on-and-off-easily-and-if-so-is-that-a-quick-process/ for his e-cat it is about 1 hour: On and off will take 1 hour, but the operation will be modulable it has a strong impact on the design of an hybrid car, meaning that it should work on battery for 1 hour. note that 5 minute is very similar to diesel time for warmup (in the old time, when Boy George was a star). 1 hour is very bad for vehicle, however maybe it is a design choice by rossi/NI linked to the use as heater. Defkalion seem (am I wrong?) to have designer a faster reactior, but we should check. 2012/1/12 Alain Sepeda <alain.sep...@gmail.com> Hi, just to add some useful data 2012/1/10 Alain Sepeda <alain.sep...@gmail.com> Right, I mean the battery need only to allow the vehicle to move on the highway, while the LENR engine is cold...
