When you feed the output back into the input and there is additional
power to supply energy to an external load, then the COP is infinite as
also occurs in a Fossil or Nuclear plant which also have infinite COPs
if you exclude the energy obtained from the fuel. So claiming a LENR
generator has a infinite COP is not a good measure of the worth of the
energy generation system. What then kicks into play is the cost per
delivered kWh of either heat or electricity. In this way the LCOE
(Levelized Cost Of Energy) is comparable between Fossil, Nuclear, Solar,
Wind, GeoThermal, Tidal, Wave, LENR, etc. LCOE can also handle the cost
of CO2 emissions from Fossil fuel plants.
For the E-Cat or any other LENR generator to make inroads into the
global energy generation market, the LCOE per kWh of delivered energy
must be lower than from any other comparable energy sources or there is
simply no market for it. The top of the LCOE scale probably starts as a
drop it in a remote site (could be in outer space) somewhere and
generate heat and electricity. For that market the acceptable LCOE of
the delivered energy is very high. For domestic situations the max
acceptable LCOE drops quite a bit and for on grid electricity generation
the required LCOE hits rock bottom.
I doubt any space agency would fly a LENR generator for some time, nor
would any military group drop a LENR generator into a mission critical
situation, so the best market is the industrial / commercial / domestic
market and that is where both Leonardo and DGT seem to be aiming their
product launches.
On 12/16/2011 8:56 AM, Alain Sepeda wrote:
by the way the COP=6 is first conservative, but the need is not of
electricity but of heat...
of course today he use electricity because it is easy to control. in
fact it seems that hyperion, and maybe soon e-cat will self sustain
quite long.
also as said here, if you can produce electricity, juste recycle your
own heat or electricity, and maybe even cherge an accumulator to be
able to start from cold, like a car...
COP is a non-sense for a really producing device...
efficiency (usable energy/(energy produced+consumed)) is more rational
to use...
