Yes, he claimed they had to reduce power. Where does it say that they did this by reducing the hydrogen pressure?
Alan J Fletcher <[email protected]> wrote: >At 10:29 AM 11/23/2011, Robert Leguillon wrote: >>Where on Earth did you guys get the information that it was running >>and hydrogen was purged? > >http://pesn.com/2011/10/31/9501942_After_the_E-Cat_Test--Report_and_Q-A_with_Rossi/ > >Description of the test installation the one megawatt Energy >Catalyzer is an assembly of 107 modules of ten kilowatts each >connected in parallel. You have noted that we did not produce one >megawatt hour per hour we produced less than that. > >*** This is because we had to lower the power of the power of the >plant because in self sustaining we had the temperature at a certain >time that rose too much. The system was difficult to modulate. > > >And this also is the reason why we had to stay very, very strict. So >we have produced if you make the calculation we have produced.. two >thousand and six hundred thirty five kilowatt hours divided by.... We >made about 479 kilowatt hours per hour, which is not one megawatt of >power. But we had to choose if we wanted to go all self sustained, or >to go with a drive of the resistances. The customer wanted to go all >self sustained, because it is very important for him. > >http://pesn.com/2011/11/02/9501943_Rossis_E-Cat_Victory_on_Cold_Fusion_Emergence_Day--E-Day/ > >To resolve the issue, the hydrogen pressure in all the reactors was >reduced. As has already been revealed by Rossi, increasing or >decreasing the hydrogen pressure is a way of throttling the output in >these systems. By reducing the hydrogen pressure, the temperatures >would not rise quite as high, and the system as a whole would be more >stable. The consequence of reducing the hydrogen pressure would be >that the plant would not be able to achieve a constant one megawatt >of output in a self-sustained mode. > >To achieve one megawatt of output in a stable manner, it would have >required a constant "drive" or input of electrical energy into the >resistors. Somehow, the heat from the resistors not only triggers the >nuclear reactions during start up, but can also allow for the system >to be more easily controlled. Rossi admitted during the question and >answer period after the system would be easier to control with a >"drive", and could have reached one megawatt. However, the ability of >the plant to operate in self sustain mode was very important for the >customer, so it was decided to simply reduce they hydrogen pressure, >and allow the system to produce less total output in a self sustained >mode of operation. > > > > >
