In the home heating unit that the Greeks are building, that unit cycles an enormous number of times to heat a home.
How cycling affects the life of the fuel is the first and most important test to be run on the E-Cat home heating product. If they can sell a home heating product, they should be easily able to build an alternative solar heat source. On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Peter Gluck <[email protected]> wrote: > How many 1 MW E-cat groups? The solar plant has 110 MW. > For the time given we have no idea how many times can you stop and restart > the E-cats with no negative effects on the performance. For example if you > get thermal peaks anytime you start up the devices- there are chances that > some active sites (or an amount of the mystery catalyst) > will be destroyed, desactivated...only practical long time will show...If > Rossi had a patent, now a great experimental program would be going fast on > a great scale- they are so many parameters! Development....I hope this is > done... > Just one- batch to batch reproducibility of active Ni/catalyst, how many > sources of core material?? > > Peter > > > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Obama administration grants $737 million for a 24/7 solar power plant >> >> >> >> >> http://blogs.forbes.com/toddwoody/2011/05/19/obama-administration-grants-737-million-for-a-247-solar-power-plant/ >> >> >> >> A group of 1 megawatt thermal E-Cats could reduce the cost of this plant >> by producing heat at night when the sun is down. >> >> >> >> The size of the molten salt buffer tanks could be reduced and the service >> life of the E-Cats could be extended by the use of solar heat during the >> day. When the sun is out, the E-Cats could be shut down to conserve nickel. >> >> >> >> If I were Rossi, I would go after this type job. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:19 AM, Peter Gluck <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> not a bad idea if the salts are sufficiently stable,some problems of >>> safety both with nitrates and (!) cyanides/ >>> Perhaps on internal circuit. well closed a amd an outer with water. >>> The problem of contacting a very hot surface remains for molten salts >>> too. >>> Peter >>> >>> >>> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> As in a solar thermal system, use molten salts such as sodium and >>>> potassium nitrate or a combination of the two. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> It is cheaper to have 1000 thin molten salts pipes and a high pressure >>>> heat exchange, then 1000 high pressure steam pipes. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 3:50 AM, Peter Gluck <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> Based on my experience with many thermal transfer agents for higher >>>>> temperatures I think water remains the unique choice . Mercury as used in >>>>> a >>>>> process of converting cyclohexanol to cyclohexanone) is prohibitely >>>>> expensive and very toxic- while organic agents as Diphyl (diphenil oxide >>>>> plus diphenyl) will rapidly degarde in contact with a very hot surface and >>>>> this will lead to fouling. What other possibilities are in your opinion? >>>>> Peter. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Alan J Fletcher <[email protected]>wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> At 01:24 PM 5/25/2011, you wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> *HARD CURRENCY ENERGY*- how the thermal energy of the active core can >>>>>> be converted in electric energy in an economical way? >>>>>> >>>>>> I don't think that's going to (or needs to) happen any time soon --- >>>>>> it only delivers 500C (limited by the nickel powder degrading?) at 50 >>>>>> bar. >>>>>> Electrical conversion efficiency at that level is less than 20% (??) >>>>>> -- times the 6x factor is barely over unity. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm probably too conservative there. 40% ? 60% ? >>>>>> (Way out of my expertise, anyway.) >>>>>> >>>>>> But the working fluid doesn't have to be water. >>>>>> I'm not sure that a >>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_vapour_turbine would get >>>>>> approval for domestic use, though !!!! >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Dr. Peter Gluck >>>>> Cluj, Romania >>>>> http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Dr. Peter Gluck >>> Cluj, Romania >>> http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com >>> >>> >> > > > -- > Dr. Peter Gluck > Cluj, Romania > http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com > >
