Some thoughts about. I predict that E-Cat when stabilized, it will produce 6-12 kW cyclically, where as average electric heating power is 800 watts, but it will also work cyclically. Therefore COP is 8-15. On average perhaps around 12.
2011/10/5 Peter Gluck <[email protected]>: »My impression was that Defkalion had (or still has, who knows?) very skilled engineers who could solve the instability problem combined with a closed circuit of the inner cooling liquid, hopefully Rossi’s present team is also good.» This is somewhat worrysome, because if I understood correctly, Levi has designed the heat exchanger setup. I hope that he has plenty of time to think the setup, but he is still just a mere nuclear physicist and not an engineer. Peter wrote: »the clams for the output/input factor have decreased from a spectacular 200;1 to a very modest 6;1 (guaranteed) plus promises of relatively short episodes of self-sustaining functioning. But please do not forget that input is always electric energy at least 3 times more expensive than raw thermal energy.» Actually first claim was 400:1, but anyways COP is irrelevant, because there is no intrinsic reasons to use electricity as an input, but it is just convenient for prototypes, because it is easy to build and easy to control. But natural gas heater would do as well. And later of course it is possible to have auxiliary Ni-H cold fusion heater for the main reactor. Therefore thinking about input output ratio is irrelevant here. I think that the thinking goes back to the Pl-D cold fusion reactions, where electrolysis thought to be the key ingredient to the trick. Therefore there was significant attention that COP must be high enough or else the technology is just very expensive electric heater. But with Rossi's setup only heat and pressure does count, therefore COP is irrelevant. –Jouni
