RE: “I don't see how doing a 1 MW demonstration would fit into a good strategy, but since I know nothing about his plans I cannot judge.”
Rossi is terrified and perplexed by occasional runaways and subsequent burnouts of his reactors that he does not understand, prevent from beginning or can control in an orderly way once begun. This control problem has forced Rossi to downsize the capacity of his basic reactor to a very small energy production capability and use many of these small units ganged together to form a large capacity unit. There are a number of ways to cover up or mitigate this intractable and little understood reactor control problem which can occur from time to time in the Rossi reactor design. Reactor run away conditions can be easily handled if this fault can be segregated to a single and easily isolate-able low powered component of a very large capacity system. For example, a 2.5 kw reactor unit may runaway with power output of 25 Kws. This runaway condition can be hidden from any user visibility in a megawatt reactor because the anomalous spiking power output maxes out at a very small fraction of the total large composite reactor output. The runaway component will burn itself out is short order after it has temporally increased the output of steam by about 1% of total capacity. Once the runaway burns itself out being one of 1,000 small subunits, it can be easily replaced in an inexpensive way through an on-the-fly procedure without markedly affecting the total composite output of the other 1000 subunits that comprise the large reactor. On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Jouni Valkonen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Was this approach right or wrong, it can be debated. I think that it was >> just wrong approach. >> > I agree. Plus I think a test of a 1 MW reactor is fraught with > difficulties. It is much easier to test 1 to 10 kW. > > > >> In my opinnion Rossi should have opensourced this technology back in 2009 >> when he filed patent application. >> > > I think what you mean here is that he should have revealed the technology > in anticipation of getting a patent. Not that he should have given it away. > Some people have suggested he should give it away because it is so > important, and it will save so many lives. That would make him the most > generous philanthropist in history. I think it is asking too much that he > should be both a brilliant inventor and also a philanthropist. > > The problem with your plan may be that his patent is weak. He and Defkalion > have both said they will rely on trade secrets to protect their intellectual > property. That tells me his patent is weak. > > I do not know much about patents but his other patent seems weak. Very > weak. Like trying to stop an automobile with a spider's web. > > I do know about trade secrets. I predict that a few months after > corporations worldwide realize the Rossi reactors are real, this trade > secret will be broken in dozens of corporations in the U.S., Europe, Japan > and China. You can protect a trade secret for a product with a niche market > that calls for inside knowledge, skill, and lots of art. Conventional > catalysts are a good example. You cannot protect a trade secret for a rather > simple device that is vital to every industry on earth, and that is worth > hundreds of trillions of dollars over the next 100 years. > > I am only guessing here, but my impression is that Rossi is stuck. He seems > to have no good method of protecting his intellectual property. That's > awful. Assuming it works, it is the most valuable discovery in history and > he deserves a trillion dollars in royalties. I fear he may get nothing. > > If he gets nothing in the end, this will be partly his own fault. His > personality may be causing problems. But it seems to me his main problem is > that this particular intellectual property is very tough to protect. I > cannot think of a good marketing strategy. I wouldn't know how to do this. > If he asked my advice, I would suggest he talk to experts in patent law and > intellectual property. Perhaps he has talked to them. Maybe he has a good > strategy. I don't see how doing a 1 MW demonstration would fit into a good > strategy, but since I know nothing about his plans I cannot judge. > > - Jed > >
