Yamali,
450 deg C E-Cats 1 MW industrial plants are not 60 deg C 10 kW home
E-Cats. You can use just about any coolant at 60 deg C. At 450 deg C you
are talking about molten salts. Whole different set of engineering
challenges.
The home E-Cat is probably just a squashed version of the copper Door
Knob earlier reactor, cleaned up a bit. Nothing there. Simple as it can
get. Probably straight through flow path with some internal fins for
better heat transfer. Easy Peazie. Most will run at around 60 deg C. No
steam or high pressure. Plastic pipe and click fittings stuff. Well ok a
bit more but not much. Most new Aussie HW systems are plumbed in plastic
today.
However dealing with 450 deg C coolant is not simple nor easy. High
pressures and high temperatures. Very different beast that can bite hard
if something breaks or goes wrong.
AG
On 1/15/2012 10:58 PM, Yamali Yamali wrote:
>> This is like asking anyone would buy a Data General Supernova
minicomputer in 1979, knowing that in a few years personal computers
would become available with far better price/performance ratios.
Analogies like that don't apply. Early computers were expensive but
there was no alternative. Yes, people knew that raw computing power
per dollar would rocket sky high in few years - and yet they just had
to buy the expensive stuff if they wanted the work done right then.
All Rossi's machines do is produce heat. You can have that from
hundreds of cheap devices and all Rossi's device has over them is a
theoretical cost advantage in the (very) long run. So why would
anybody buy unproven technology today that eventually breaks even in a
couple of years when even the manufacturer himself says that the price
is going to drop dramatically in a fraction of that time? It doesn't
make any sense what so ever. Except if you do NOT want people to buy
the expensive machines but keep them waiting for another year or so. I
can only interpret Rossi's current talk about super-cheap e-cats in
the near future as an elaborate excuse for not selling anything today.
