On 02/14/2011 04:29 PM, Jones Beene wrote: > BTW there was a recent report (yet to be verified) that Rossi had admitted > that the initial design goal is for average COP ~8, P-in (elec) to P-out > (therm) or far less than the original of 20 or more.
Now why would he want to do that? If he's really demonstrated a version with an honest COP= 12000/400 = 30, and if he can really operate it without input as claimed, why would he decide to design for 8:1? Surely Rossi knows enough about thermodynamics to realize that, with a 100C output, that renders it marginal for electricity generation. For a room temperature cooled motor, the Carnot efficiency with 100C steam is going to be, what, 20%? With COP=infinity that's just fine. With COP=8 it's not so good. Truth be told, it sounds to me like either (a) this "unverified" report is wrong, or (b) Rossi's "losing his process" even faster than expected...
