Jed Rothwell wrote: > Steven Krivit wrote: > >> According to three of my sources in the hot fusion field, (the >> spokesman for PPPL, a plasma physicist at General Atomics, and >> someone working in the public relations office of EFDA-JET) none, >> repeat, none have produced excess energy. >> >> Greatest Q= 0.67 was at JET > > I suppose it depends upon how you define excess energy. In all cases > the reactor is hotter than it would be if there were no reaction > going on inside it. Q=0.67 indicates that the heat from the nuclear > reaction is 67% of the input power. Evidently they are defining > excess as "nuclear power output exceeding total input electric > power." By that standard, a cold fusion cell producing 30% of input > power has a Q=0.3 and no excess, but we still call it "excess heat." > Few cold fusion cells have had a Q>1.0.
It was my perception ( as a non-expert) that excess heat meant Q>1.0. I also think this is what your average person would regard as "excess heat". This is suppose to be the "promise" of CF is it not? > It would be easy to increase > the Q by reducing input power, using conventional electrochemical > techniques such as moving the anode and cathode closer together. > People have not done that because there is no point. NO POINT???!!!! Harry
