In Mills' previous public demonstration of detonation of wet particles, he showed calorimetry being done. I pointed out at the time that the calorimetry appeared to be flawed because he failed to account for the difference in ejecta in the actual and baseline cases. He showed by calorimetry, a COP of about 2 at the time (though, with proper accounting of ejecta, the result would have been less). His claim was that this excess energy was high enthalpy and would be converted at near 100% efficiency to electricity using a MHD converter. I pointed out many flaws in the design of his MHD and that it would be unlikely to work at even 1% conversion efficiency.
Note that the calorimetry showed in the demo would have included all of the radiative outputs of the reaction (at least up to about 10 keV), and even then he only got a best case COP of 2 (and it was probably less). The radiative portion of the output in the range of reasonable solar cell efficiency is unlikely to be more than about 25% of the total energy his reaction produced. If the solar cells were to collect 100% of this and have 30% conversion efficiency, the COP would be 0.15. More likely, the COP would be less than 0.1, pretty much a non-starter from the beginning. What is the motivation to do this experiment? Unless Mills can demonstrate a much higher COP to optical photons, this will never be gainful. Bob Higgins On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Craig Haynie <cchayniepub...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > http://pesn.com/2014/07/12/9602517_Landmark-Interview_ >> with_Randell-Mills_Blacklight-Power/ > > > From the PESN article above: > > Randell said that the engineering firms they are consulting with say that >> there are no engineering obstacles to marry the Blacklight system with >> photovoltaics, but that all systems are Go. All the different engineering >> problems are covered, including light angle, emission from electrodes, heat >> dissipation and transfer, and material handling. "This thing is meant to >> be", is their assessment. They are extraordinarily optimistic this will >> roll out quickly. It wont' take decades or even years. "Every major issue >> has broken in our favor," said Randell. > > > It seems, then, that a major redesign of their system is once more > underway. > > Eric > >
