At 10:29 PM 7/8/2012, Axil Axil wrote:
So soon you forget. His first customer absolutely required the 1 MW
power factor.
According to?
As I posted in the past, a 1 MW thermal reactor is the ideal reactor
size for a drone with a 100 HP electric engine operating with a
thermal to electric conversion ratio of 15%.
Great. The 1 MW device we were shown was many individual smaller
reactors. A shipping container is not going to be stuffed in a drone.
If there really is such a customer, what they would want delivered
would be a single reactor, or a small number of them, with a contract
for the delivery of more. They would not want someone with Rossi's
background and resources putting together the combination, wasting
time and money on efforts not actually needed.
Now that the Rossi core operates at 600C, the thermodynamic
efficiency is up to 45%.
According to?
And these playing card pack size 10 KW cores, numbered at about
100 cores, this new drone LENR power supply can be packaged in a
volume that is less than that occupied by a current drone engine.
According to?
I'll answer here. According to Rossi, then with Axil Axil drawing
conclusions from Rossi's reports.
This saves the volume now reserved for long duration sized fuel storage tanks.
And the original point has now been buried. The point is that the
original 1 MW reactor is not what someone would want, who wanted to
do what Axil imagines as the purpose.
Such a LENR drone can take off from the us and get to the patrol
zone anywhere in the world in just a few days saving the hassle of
field support and fuel logistics, stay on station for a year and
return back to its base in the US for a quick refueling and be back
on station in less than a week.
Summary: if anyone can build a LENR reactor with performance
characteristics like those claimed, countless applications become possible.
This is belaboring the obvious, avoiding the obvious.
It all depends on Rossi.
Okay, there is a little more, there are now apparently independent
business people working on the problem. But we don't know what they
have actually found, and they are also secretive. That's not a
complaint. They have the right to be secretive.
But secrecy has a consequence that cannot be avoided. We can't trust
rumors and claims when the truth is a secret.
Indeed, secrecy on cold fusion, in 1989, on the part of Pons and
Fleischmann, was a critical factor that allowed the general physics
community to -- improperly -- reject cold fusion. That secrecy may
have been justifiable for commercial reasons, but ... it also allowed
an atmosphere of suspicion and mistrust to flourish, and the result
was that cold fusion did not get the continued massive research
funding that might have been necessary to break through ignorance of
the mechanism, and which is still needed, probably, even though
secrecy is not much of an issue any more (for the Pons-Fleischmann
Heat Effect).
And replication remained difficult for years, for similar reasons,
and thus the "intellectual property" being protected became
worthless. Even though the FPHE is definitely real, and that's
practically a certainty. Real, but impractical, so far.
Unless Rossi's claims are real, which looks very shaky. (And that's
not the FPHE, it is obviously a different process, possibly LENR, and
some LENR theories do claim a mechanism that might work with NiH.
Storms is predicting that the ash with NiH is deuterium. Not
immediately easy to detect in a hydrogen environment where deuterium
is always an impurity, but with long operation at high power, it
should be easy to confirm this prediction. Trivial, in fact. That is
the kind of work that has made "fusion" of some kind -- mechanism
still unknown -- highly likely as what is happening with PdD
experiments. Helium was the ash, demonstrated by correlation with
heat across many experiments and research groups.)
