I also note that Fe was found in the analysed fuel sample. Was the Fe a ferrite powder and does Rossi use the RF wires to apply low frequency EM induction to the Fe / ferrite powder to somehow assist control of the speed / gain / of the reactor when running in self sustain mode?
I see the E-Cat as a sort of a amplified on the verge of breaking into oscillation where in self sustain mode, with a output heat energy feedback into the input, gain must somehow be closely controlled less you get oscillation, while in heater applied mode, control is much easier as you can control the input heat via the heater energy.
Maybe the Fe and the "RF" assist the self sustained mode control? Ferrites when moving up and down their BH curves do undergo slight physical dimensional changes. Can these ferrite shape changes cause the Ni nano powder, which I assume packs very densely, to alter the number of Ni atoms that are available to the H- ions? Assuming the Fe is a ferrite and it has a high permeability, this could create a lot of localized micro magnetic fields inside the packed Ni nano powder.
I also note that Rossi said the genset was running because of safety. Did he mean that if one of the E-Cats, running in high gain self sustain mode got out of control, he would then drop the reactor gain, dropping them out of self sustain mode and switch back to heater mode to regain control of all the E-Cats?
Somehow Rossi seems to be able to control the gain of the reaction and in heater mode run at a lower reactor gain with external heat applied (more safety as he seems to imply) and when self sustain mode is required, which he does not seem to like, (maybe he has seen 1 too many reactor melt downs) boost the gain so as to use the generated heat as input to the reaction but at the risk of a run away reactor.
Rossi did say that the reason he limited the 1 MW visitors to 2 was because of the time it would take to evacuate the reactor room if something went wrong. I do suggest Rossi has seen these reactors go very wrong and was generally worried about visitor safety.
Just some thoughts from down under. AG On 11/10/2011 2:51 AM, Jeff Sutton wrote:
Hello. I have been following Rossi and the posts since the beginning and am very fascinated. Rather than a fraud, I believe Rossi is on to something incrementally better than those that came before. He has more success starting the reaction, however I think he has little control over it once started To that supposition, can others comment on how they believe control exists? (For discussion purpose, please suspend any thoughts that it is a scam.)1. Rossi, with all his comments, seems to suggest that it takes time to heat up the ecat to get things started, however from the demonstrations, they do not seem to have started in any scheduled way. He does, however, seem to get the ecat started within a few hours give or take so that is fantastic. 2. 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. and if not in self-sustain mode, then what does he do to "reset" the reactor? Use his heating element? that makes no sense. Add Hydrogen? Again that makes no sense as he could put a regulator on this and do such automatically. What resets the operation? 3. He noted in the 2nd to last demo that he had a frequency generator and it had been hidden all along, but in the last demo he notes there isn't one. Does this suggest that he was trying something new to help in start up or make it run longer? Or was this mis-direction? Where was this device or wires for it in previous tests? 4. How does he control the reaction? His only control seems to be the heating element and the flow of water over the reactor. But in all experiments, until quenching, the water flow seemed to be constant. And one generating "substantial" heat, clearlycontrolling the reaction with a heating element very unlikely. Is contol simply due to the pre-start conditions (the amount ofhydrogen, nickel, geometry) and it runs "out of control" for a few hours? Any advice on how the control works would be most interesting.In any event, forget all the nonsense with his lousy engineering design and terrible business skills; few are good at all things. If Rossi has found a way to get the reaction going and produce significant excess energy, he has changed the world and should be recognized for this.
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