-----Original Message----- From: Stephen A. Lawrence > But it's pointless.
Well, to be honest - this entire wet-steam / dry-steam argument (and the massive bandwidth) could be little more than a diversion now, and is of historical importance only - if and when there is NO required input electricity. Thursday is the big day. To be precise, when the COP is infinite, so none of this matters very much. The real issues are how many E-Cats the purchaser will need, how much they will cost to amortize and the other expenses, especially refueling. IOW - no need to dwell on ancient history ... Defkalion's big problem is "how well do they stack up against solar?" Thursday will likely be the most important announcement since the Bologna demo, since this will be Defkalion's grand entrance to the Ball. They are fully cognizant of Greece's International debt problems, and methinks it will be staged as a grand entrance, maybe even milked by the Media for its PR value (even though the two events are unrelated). They have already been emphasizing the local resources of nickel. We know from Rossi that DGE have received hundreds of reactors already, and my guess is that they will show to the waiting World - months in advance of October - that when many of these share a common thermal reservoir with a low volatility heat transfer fluid (previously my guess was that it is the new version of "Therminol") ... then no electrical input is needed after startup. Heck it may be only 200 kW instead of a MW but who's quibbling? Consequently, and this cannot be emphasized too much - when the COP is infinite then nothing really matters about the steam quality in those the early demonstrations. Matter of fact, it could have all been choreographed to happen this way. (but I doubt it). Let's move on to the real issues - like cost/performance vs. other green energy sources, especially solar thermal. Jones
