I think the problem is heat management and control; it seems that there very frequent heat peaks at the start- and local overheating can destroy the active sites. In the same time the triggering of the reaction needs uniform heat.
One problem to be solved is that of design- a good commercial aspect/form has to be worked (as a small refrigerator at PESN (?) now the E-cat looks as a phallos specialized in rape as I wrote to a friend. Peter On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:40 AM, <mix...@bigpond.com> wrote: > In reply to Alan J Fletcher's message of Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:51:18 -0700: > Hi, > [snip] > >Dear Mr. Gluck: > >I prefer to use small modules for economy scale and safety issues. To > combine even thousands of modules in series and parallels is easy, and zero > risk time thousands is always zero. Why risk? > >Warm regards, > >A.R. > > ...well one good reason would be to save on Lead shielding. The thickness > of the > Lead is constant, so you use less per unit volume for a larger cylinder > radius. > Presumably the power would scale with the volume, thus improving the Lead > to > power ratio and making the power cheaper. > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html > > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com