Jed, A rather detailed demonstration of the 50 kW burst reactor has been on the website for months. Just go to the home page and click on the boxes and you will get Jansson demonstrating the whole thing. Keep clicking and you will find reports by Rowan staff on the chemistry. The limitation is that it is one pulse and then regeneration of the chemical charge by adding hydrogen. This takes energy and mechanism and arrays of reactors cells to get continuous output. Analogous to a a multi-cylinder ICE. Engineering studies of two approaches are also on the website.
BLP's problem is that bench chemistry shows that the catalyst cycle can be regenerated, the physical form after the reaction is not the same as before, so mechanism and energy is involved in the regeneration. Plus, water has to electrolyzed to get additional hydrogen. All this is outlined on the home page and detailed in the "What's New" papers. The energy yield from the reaction is very high, but the support system to convert the reaction energy to electricity for a self-running demonstration system is a tough chemical engineering task which is being farmed out to three major engineering firms. Look at the typical LENR experimental setup. Many, many steps before hot tea. The demo has to be "right" and show a clear, do-able path to scale-up. The LENR world is not able to make reliable cathodes nor unequivocally identify the consumables or the facilities needed to reuse the cathodes. Mills is far ahead by such measures. Mike Carrell From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 9:07 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:BLP looking for "Battery Development Scientist/Engineer" Mike Carrell wrote: BLP has already and repeatedly, with Rowan, achieved 1 MJ, 50 kW energy bursts . . . If they can do this, I think they should stop trying to make a prototype practical device and concentrate instead on demonstrating something like this to a large number of people and on the Internet. BLP is targeting a 1/20 scale prototype in 2010, with water as a fuel. Essentially that means 50 kW average, not peak, power. One cylinder engine, with larger clusters to follow. The exact form will be dictated by Nature, not Jed's wishes. On the contrary, that would fill my wishes to a "T." I do not care at all about the exact form. Any form would be fine. A 1-cylinder engine is fine, or if a battery-like device can be made quickest, that would be fine with me. A 1/20 scale prototype would be great, or 1/100, or 1/1000. The details do not make the slightest difference. They should make whatever they can, as quickly as they can, and concentrate on using it to convince large numbers of people the effect is real. Once they do that, the rest will follow. If they fail to do that, nothing will follow. - Jed ________________________________________________________________________ This Email has been scanned for all viruses by Medford Leas I.T. Department.
