As an engineer, I would love to take on that product challenge. I am moving to a "cold climate" area. Cold climate heat pumps still only produce a COP of about 2-3 and have a lot of control to keep the exchanger from becoming frozen (frequent defrost cycles). It is a split unit that still needs an outside unit and inside unit with plumbing between. Yet these heat pumps are still the lowest cost heat means, unless you chop your own wood and burn it in a wood stove. The heat pumps are cheaper than pellet wood heating. I can imagine a home/industrial heater for these climes where a COP=2.5 would be a highly competitive product for heating. It could be as easy to install as putting it on the floor and plugging it into the wall with no outside plumbing or ventilation required, just a thermostat.
This winter, the cost LPG skyrocketed due to shortage of supply. Farmers were hit with early winter temperatures and used the gas to heat their silos to dry their corn. Even as the LPG costs come down, a 2.5 COP LENR heater would be 1/3 the cost of LPG heating. There are a lot of industrial applications where high temperature heating is required and no heat pumps apply today - ovens in particular for everything from soldering, ceramic firing, concrete calcining, aluminum making, wood kiln drying, etc - all within the temperatures of the HotCat. And they use huge amounts of heat to the point that their bottom line depends on the cost of heat. Once there is a business/product at COP=2.5, I don't think high COP is that far behind. Long operation at COP=2.5 proves LENR is real and depending on the duration could prove it is nuclear or at least a real but unknown highly desirable phenomenon. Investment will spring up everywhere. On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > If it is 2.5 instead of 4, then we will not be looking at moving to > commercialization on a rapid pace. > > >
