“It's doubtful that Rossi exhibited anything that would have enough RF power to melt down the core in all the E-cats in the megawatt plant at once. Where would he store that much power?”
I humbly submit in a simplified example, the RF generator is like an antenna connected to a radio, but not as sensitive. The minuscule current produced by an antenna can control the output of a radio. So to relatively speaking, not much RF generator power is required to stoke up the Rydberg matter. “Anyway, wouldn't stopping the coolant flow be the best way to melt down a runaway core?” In order to adjust things based on reactor temperature, a fast reacting control system is required. In such a control system, a temperature probe is sampled rapidly, and a micro-processor controls a flow valve regulating the coolant flow based on the analog value of the temperature probe. Without such a automated control system, Rossi must do all this manually without letup when running in self-sustain mode. He must be a man with great stamina. If I where him, I would keep these demos down to a bare minimum to avoid a nervous breakdown. “The more one looks at the concept of a "safety heater", especially one that runs at appreciable power levels during most supposedly exothermic runs, the worse it smells.” I agree, the Rossi E-Cat is a very crude product. When you buy one, you are buying a pain in the neck. The customer should know that going in. On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Mary Yugo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> In addition, the RF would have a near instantaneous effect, whereas >> Mary’s suggestion would have a very significant time-lag… thus, as Axil >> pointed out, a much greater likelihood of runaway. >> > > It's doubtful that Rossi exhibited anything that would have enough RF > power to melt down the core in all the E-cats in the megawatt plant at > once. Where would he store that much power? Anyway, wouldn't stopping the > coolant flow be the best way to melt down a runaway core? The more one > looks at the concept of a "safety heater", especially one that runs at > appreciable power levels during most supposedly exothermic runs, the worse > it smells. >
