On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Jones Beene < [email protected] > wrote
A suspicious observer might say Rossi reduced his promised COP to 6 from 30 to give him an excuse for requiring an input; for why he can't close the loop. His problem isn't GETTING the COP -- it's CONTROLLING it. It has to be unconditionally stable -- and the original eCAT wasn't doing that. I'm pretty sure (without evidence, of course) that the 130kW "brief" power spike in February was unintended. Suppose that cascaded from one eCat to another -- a 1MW plant suddenly generating 5MW would tend to go 'boom'. On the closed loop ... I'm not sure what efficiencies are available at 2.5kW. I posted a link a couple of weeks back to a helical turbine that promised 80% efficiency at eCat temperatures (500) and pressures (50) -- but the smallest unit was 40kW.
