On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In any case, it continues in self-sustaining mode far beyond the limits of > chemistry, > Not more than a few per cent on *this* side of the limits of chemistry. > and the energy used to reheat it is far less than the energy it produces > continuously during the self-sustaining period. > I don't recall he ever actually went through a complete cycle: preheat, self-sustain, reheat, self-sustain. The demos are all pre-heat and "self-sustain" and then shut-down. And the energy used in the pre-heating phase is comparable, if not more than that extracted during the "self-sustain" phase.
