Hi,
On 10-5-2011 17:36, Axil Axil wrote:
After it is requested to make electric power, the responsiveness of
the Cat-E is problematical. The Cat-E is not the ideal home power
generator because it will take time to get steam up. Upon a call for
power, it may take 5 or 10 minutes before the steam generator is
putting out the amount of power needed.
Furthermore, a good deal of power will be wasted in this on/off
cycling. The Cat-E may need battery storage to even out the power
demand curve.
In any case, the Cat-E will still require a connection to the power
grid to be maintained.
I disagree, as Rossi already proved that you can leave the E-Cat running
continuously for months, which I think is also the original intent of Rossi.
While running continuously in a steady pace you have all the heat you
instantly need.
In the mean time when there is no demand for heat, it can be used for
conversion through a Stirling Engine into electricity which can be
stored into an array of batteries, while the remaining excess heat can
be used to heat water in a boiler, in the same way as a
solar-collector-boiler works.
Such configuration is already (except naturally the E-Cat, but a
solar-collector and PV-panels) installed in a couple of houses over
here; these houses do have no connection to the power grid and gas-net
anymore. Nowadays special batteries for this purpose are largely available.
Two big advantages of Rossi's E-cat are that you don't need to do an
expensive investment into Solar collector and PV-panels anymore and you
are not dependent (during night) of the availability of the Sun.
Kind regards,
MoB
