Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Most processes do not scale linearly and offer new engineering > challenges at certain cusps. A good example could be the nanopowder > core of the reactor. This is the kind of thing that may cause problems in a scale-up. But I think the plan is to make many small reactor cores, about the size of the present demo unit: ~1 L. People here have reported it will have ~120 units ganged together. (Was it 120? Did that info come from Rossi's blog?) I do not think they ever intend to make a single large core, along the lines of a Tokamak reactor. Nowadays, it is not difficult to manufacture thousands or even millions of identical objects. A megawatt scale cold fusion reactor might be made of an array of small cells, perhaps as small as AAA batteries. That would be a lot smaller than Rossi's present cell. Each might be self-contained, perhaps with all of them a bath of pressurized cooling water. This is similar to the way a uranium reactor core has rods filled with fuel pellets each 1.7 cm long. - Jed
