----- Original Message ----
> From: Jones Beene <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Tue, June 21, 2011 2:56:38 PM
> Subject: RE: [Vo]:Something more on the steam
>
> -----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.
I think a new measure of COP is needed. A value of zero would equate
with infinite performance in the old system, and an infinite value would equate
with a terrible performance in the new system.
Harry
