From: Jed Rothwell Someone pointed out to me that at such low temperatures, you would probably use the hot fluid to heat the equipment directly before returning it, rather than going through a heat exchanger.
- Jed Didn’t you see the post on NBF from GoatGuy - which nails the easy way to cheat with this type of setup? It’s all about letting air in the line, in the “hidden room” where IH was not permitted to even take a look. This is not accidental air leakage, but planned that way – to deceive. Of course, GaotGuy’s explanation doesn’t work if you have a real customer buying real steam, since they immediately know they are getting shortchanged. That is why this case will likely be dismissed before it ever gets to trial. When the swindle of claiming for months that “the customer" is buying a $1000 per day of steam, is shown to be a make-believe customer with no use for steam at all (instead it is your own business partner who is buying nothing) … when this fraud is brought to the attention of the Court, the claim against IH will likely be tossed. Goat guy, who seems to have an excellent grasp of this situation, came up with the explanation -- which can be seen here by scrolling down to his post in the comments. http://nextbigfuture.com/2016/04/rossi-1-megawatt-energy-catalyzer-is.html Basically, in the center of the “reactor shelter” is a box labeled “water reservoir” which has 2 inlets and 2 outlets. Inlet 1, top = tap water from municipal line Inlet 2, bot = return from steam condensers Outlet 1, top = water to first half of E-cats and then to water tank 1 Outlet 2, bot = water to second half of E-cats and then to water tank 2 All that would be needed would be for the steam-condenser loop to have a planned amount of air in the line for this to be a really misleading COP > 1 system. Sensors that measure gas flow cannot discriminate 100% steam from 50:50 steam from 0% hot air. Likewise, with a bit of flim-flam, most of the heat emitted could be combined back into the circulating loop (of which there are 2: (water tank 1) → (input to ECat₁) → (combine with reservoir tank water) → (back into ECat₁) → (back to water tank 1) … repeated for the bottom half…. Etc. Etc. An ingenious scam. It was clever on Rossi’s part, but the type of cleaver that can cost him dearly, in the end.
