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Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2008 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Free Energy Intentionally Put Off?
In reply to Mike Carrell's message of Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:24:15 -0500:
Hi,
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Even with favorable assumptions, the rate of implementation of BLP
technology may take one to two decades before the carbon-based fuels are
replaced. That is comparable with some estimates of the decline of oil
resources. I do not yet see how BLP could be applied to aircraft, but I am
willing to be pleasantly surprised.
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The main problem with Mills' technology, as I see it, is that the energy
output
is still only about 150% of the energy input. This is not much better than
most
CF experiments.
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One has to be very careful with energy budgets. There is the energy input to
the cell, and the energy from the wall plug. In the case of the solid fuel
in the present test cell, significant heat is invested in heating 1 kg of
R-Ni carrying 5 gm of actual NaOH. There ssem no compelling reason for this.
With proper design, one could assume that the heat of the reaction couild
pre-heat other 'batches' of the fuel, without external heating. Only the BLP
crew has the knowledge of the details necessary to do it properly. The test
cell protocol seems designed to minimize the investment of heat to prime the
reaction. Mills has stated on anothe list lthat he is working on a
continuous burn process which will be disclosed in due course. I don't have
the knowledge or skill to determine that H[1/4] implies enough energy
release to get useful external work from a water-fueled reactor. Such may
take several tries and very good engineering.
In response to Robin's comment, I was quoting another post bu someone I
don't recall. Until a prototype of significant scale is actually built and
run of a while, we will not know if it is time to cheer or not. Mills may
have a realistic grasp of the numbers, I don't. A comment by Mills on the
SCP list implies that the R-Ni may be useful for a finite number of cycles.
That makes it a consumeable, possibly important in large scale deployment of
the BLP technology.
Mike Carrell
Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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