Mark Iverson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does this mean that he is NOT satisfied with the kitty-cat (2.5KW), and it > going back to a slightly > larger reactor? I believe the kitty-cat tested by Lewan is exactly the same reactor that E&K tested the other day, at ~4 kW. It has a 50 ml cell. I believe Lewan and Rossi took off the insulation, removed the chimney, wrapped new insulation around it, and ran it at somewhat lower power. Also higher input. Maybe the chimney improves efficiency?! Who knows. Based on the tests in December and January done by Levi et al., I have the impression that the things work better some days than others, and that input power varies, for reasons I cannot guess. This is not a bit surprising for a crude prototype machine. If any other cold fusion researcher got this level of reproducibility and control, he might think he had died and gone to heaven, but Rossi seemed kind of disturbed, or preoccupied, in Lewan's video. I don't read minds, but here is what I guess he was thinking to himself: "If I'm putting in 300 W and getting out a lousy 2.5 kW, how am I ever going to make 300 of these things to play together nicely and produce 1 MW reliably, without blowing off the roof like the Fukushima reactor." That's sure as heck what I would be thinking! The performance in these demonstrations has been phenomenal. Nothing close to this has ever been done in the history of cold fusion. However, in my opinion, it is not good enough to scale up to a 1 MW reactor, and October is five minutes away on the timescale it takes to engineer such things. If Rossi pulls this off it will be the fastest R&D since the Manhattan project. - Jed
