Agreed regarding self-sustaining time and there is something in the reactor that needs to be "reset". I suggest however, that simply adding heat again cannot be it as that is saying one type of heat is different from the other.
Is the heater a DC device or AC with some important frequency? On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Jeff Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > "He has shown it in "self-sustaining" mode but always shuts it down after > a few hours with some excuse. Why does he do that when the blockbuster > note would be "the ecat just keeps on going." I suggest this must mean > that the ecat cannot just keep on running for 6 months has he notes; at > least in self-sustaining mode. . . ." > > Did he say it can go 6 months in self-sustaining mode? I don't recall > hearing that. He said that one of them ran for a year or so in Italy -- the > address was listed in a patent. But I do not think it was self-sustaining > the whole time. I don't know if it was self-sustaining at all. The data > from that patent always shows some input power. > > Technologically, there is no point to a self-sustaining reaction. A > reaction with a low level of input power to control it is better. > > Rossi has said lately that 6 hours is about the limit of a self sustaining > reaction. The reasons are unclear. Maybe it peters out. Or does it go out > of control? Who knows. > > - Jed > >
