You will get it right one day. I am just kidding as you probably detected Eric.
Actually, it might not be too easy for Rossi to operate his device with just a generator attached to some type of steam turbine. With the present COP of 6 the device might experience difficulty delivering the peak power required for the drive resistor heating. If we assume that the steam turbine-generator has an efficiency of 33%, there would be about two times the power required to drive the ECAT available in electrical form at its output. Unfortunately the heating must be delivered in pulses that are at a duty cycle of 33 % in this particular experiment. A quick calculation suggests that the peak heating needed for the control resistors is approximately equal to 1.5 times all of the electrical power being generated for that period of time. This will lead to a power deficit during the heating period. External power is available during the other 2/3 of the period and in fact that likely would have to be drawn to keep the generator operating at a smooth pace. To accomplish this feat, I believe that Rossi will need a form of energy storage such as a battery or the local power mains to source and draw power from. Once the ECAT system is running with the proper load handling, it will exhibit an overall system COP of infinity as Jed likes to point out. This post was put together with a modest amount of consideration and I would appreciate it if others would correct any obvious errors that I have committed. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Fri, May 31, 2013 8:32 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: My point was a valid one. It's that for a regular ICE you need a secondary source of power to drive the spark plugs (where in a diesel engine you do not after the engine gets going). Just to clarify the point (for others), in an ICE, there is mechanical energy that can easily be converted into electricity to recharge the battery. In Rossi's device, assuming it is driven by joule heating (as I have no reason to doubt), you would have to capture the heat coming from the device and figure a way to route it back to the secondary source of power (analogous to the battery in the ICE). As we all know, this is not so easy to do, so while the ICE is a good analogy, in that it demonstrates why a secondary source of power might be necessary, the analogy only goes so far, in that it is harder in Rossi's case to recapture the heat and channel it back into the secondary source. I think this is all pretty obvious to anyone who has given some thought to the matter and who is seeking after truth. I just wanted to tie off one or two loose ends. Eric
