Jones Beene wrote:
If QM is involved, as may well be the case (quasi BEC for instance, or tunneling) then a REVERSE economy of scale may emerge. This could limit any single device to tens of watts or less. Of course, it may be possible that an array of dozens or hundreds of mass-produced cells will be eventual the answer to that problem ... or not.
Why not hundreds of thousands of cells? Modern robot fabrication techniques would allow this. An array seems likely for other reasons.
People have gotten one small cell to produce reasonably steady heat for long periods. I cannot imagine any reason why you could not gang up thousands of small cells. The heat from one will not quench the reaction in the ones next to it. On the contrary, heating a cell with a pulse of electrolysis power or JJoule heater power tends to make it work better. Nothing leaves a cell but heat. There are practically no neutrons or x-rays or anything else that might have an impact on nearby cells.
- Jed
