Heat a secondary effect ? Could the "heater" be a coil fed with sawtooth pulses to create collapsing magnetic fields that somehow promote the reactions ? QM wonderland ;) Non physicist speculation here... JG Moreau
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 14:29:56 -0500 Subject: Re: [Vo]:Control Mechanism From: [email protected] To: [email protected] If memory serves, someone on vortex saw that the internal heater was pulsed from looking at a movie of a scope either in the first or a very early demo. I would think that an alternating plasma would increase the production of Rydberg matter since RM condenses out of the plasma as the ions cool. On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Jeff Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: 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
