Beware that the extra heat/g. And that's the up limit. Generally, it's around 40W/g and 50/g. You'd have to use some complicated scheme to get an electrical feedback and self sustain.
2012/8/17 Akira Shirakawa <shirakawa.ak...@gmail.com> > On 2012-08-17 17:14, Jones Beene wrote: > >> gain, anyway. I think AR has seen minor gain perhaps COP=2, and that he >> used >> copper to get it, perhaps inadvertently from the copper-alloy plumbing. >> But >> that is a guess. >> > > If Rossi's magic powder works as Celani's treated ISOTAN44 wires (positive > feedback with temperature), there's little reason to doubt that his gain > could be higher. Just increase the amount of active material and you can > immediately have useful amounts of energy, although this might be expensive > and/or impractical. In fact, I think this is exactly what Rossi did in is > earlier public tests to scale up the effect. > > Celani, with 70 W/g (data by Daniel Rocha), would just need 150g of active > material to reach about 10 kW of low temperature excess heat and a quite > high COP, if he wanted (he would need a proper reactor vessel first, > however). Incidentally this is about the same amount of material reportedly > used by Rossi in his early 2011 demos. I guess it would be relatively > expensive to set up such a demonstrative reactor for Celani, but it's not > undoable, although it would be scientifically useless. > > 70 W/g is a low starting point as a specific power for the active material > too. I imagine this could be vastly improved with funds and good > engineering. According to "Cures" (Domenico Fioravanti - the colonel > engineer who tested Rossi's half-megawatt plant in October 2011 and used to > post anonymously on a public forum, if you trust him), calculated the > specific power for Rossi's powder to range between 480-3300 W/g [1] - so > apparently there's plenty of room for improvement. > > Combine this with cheap scaling up methods (add more material) and you can > see why Rossi might be worried about competition, especially Celani's. > > Cheers, > S.A. > > [1] http://www.cobraf.com/forum/**topic.php?topic_id=5747&reply_** > id=123482813#123482813<http://www.cobraf.com/forum/topic.php?topic_id=5747&reply_id=123482813#123482813> > > -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com