I have always believed from the very begining that the Ni/H reactor should have been based on a liquid metal heat pipe concept. The heat pipe concept is required to keep the reaction zone inside the E-Cat free of combustion gases that might come from using natural gas as a external heat source.
The heat pipe is a great heat isolation and transfer technique used to move heat in a controlled manor. Heat flow in heat pipes can be setup to use computer controlled flow valves to regulate how much heat stimulation that a E-Cat might receive. As central Lithium storage reservoir can connect all the 103 E-Cats together whereby the heat from a subset of hot E-Cats could stimulate the reaction in a subset of cooler an less active E-Cats. The common Lithium reservoir might be initially brought up to operating temperature using natural gas. As the E-Cat array got rolling, the natural gas external heat source could be shut off and the E-Cat array could run in self sustaining mode. Furthermore, the excess heat from the reservoir could be used to to power a turbine to produce electricity at high efficiency as well as provide high quality industrial heat and hydrogen for the chemical industry. A lithium heat pipe system would be a good fit to operated in a Ni/H reactor heat range at about 1300C to 1400C. If you are a worrier, other elements could be added to lithium to make it more benign and adjust it melting and vaporization points. Molten salts are based on this concept. On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Alan Fletcher <a...@well.com> wrote: > *From: *"Blaze Spinnaker" <blazespinna...@gmail.com> > *Sent: *Wednesday, November 5, 2014 9:49:08 AM > > > David, Rossi is agreeing on JONP that they need to use gas as well. My > question is though if they can use gas, why not use a self-feedback system. > > Might be that the adjustment of temperature needs to be controlled quickly > ... and one full ecat responds too slowly to feed another. We already have > a "cat and mouse" but no details at all on what it might be or how it might > work. > > It's still very early in the engineering cycle to go to more complicated > systems. They can make plenty of money from a COP=6 thermal system, even > with an electric drive. >
