Jed,
Rossi is onto a winner here.
Look at the earlier copper pipe Door Knob style reactor. It produced in
the 10 to 20 kW range, same as the home E-Cat. Put it in a case, a few
fittings for the fluid, small mirco for control, small transformerless
power supply, wraparound heater, RFG coil, a screw in "Energy Stick"
with the Ni power and like Bob's your uncle, you have a home E-Cat. Cost
when making 1 mil per year? Maybe $100 tops. He needs to give WalMart
and other retailer around 100% markup, so out the factory door at $200
to $250 for a $400 to $500 retail. Nice profit there for Rossi and the
retailer.
VERY DOABLE.
Can see there will be addons, like external heat exchangers and
circulation pumps with fans for space heating, inside water tank heat
exchangers for hot water, etc.
Doubt this is a whole system price, more like a price for the E-Cat
thermal unit with an inlet connection and a outlet connection plus a
On/Off button and a light / beeper to say it is time to replace the
"Energy Stick".
Could be quite small as the Fat E-Cat reactor assembly was stated as
being 20 x 20 x 1 cm with 2 cm of lead on all sides. That reactor
assembly had 3 reactor cores. Rossi has said the home unit only has 1
reactor, so maybe the reactor assembly is them reduced to 8 x 20 x 1.
With 2 cm of lead on all sides we get 12 x 24 x 5 cm. Lap top size as
Rossi has stated.
AG
On 1/15/2012 1:49 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Mary Yugo wrote:
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 7:27 PM, <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
In reply to Mary Yugo's message of Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:54:16 -0800:
Hi,
I think the price of the 10 kW modules is just a projected price,
and is
probably more likely to be a manufacturing cost price than what he
can really
sell them for. Furthermore, I think that when the factory for the
small units
really kicks into high gear, the price of the 1 MW units will come
down
accordingly.
>Sorry if this was discussed and I missed it but a new set of
"Rossi says"
>is creating cognitive dissonance in several places.
>
>Rossi says on his blog that the price of his so-called megawatt
plant has
>been "reduced" from $2 million to $1.5 million. But he projects
that
>starting within a year, his 10kW devices will sell for $50/kW.
$50 per
>kW is only $50,000 per megawatt. Why would anyone pay a million
and a half
>dollars for something you could assemble yourself, albeit in a
more modular
>form for $50,000?
This is truly idiotic comment. Yugo does not understand the first
thing about business or technology. I am glad I blocker her message.
This is like asking anyone would buy a Data General Supernova
minicomputer in 1979, knowing that in a few years personal computers
would become available with far better price/performance ratios. In
the 1970s and early 80s I knew lots of companies that purchased Data
General supernovas and MV 8000s, and DEC computers of similar types. I
programmed them. The customers and I and everyone else knew perfectly
well that minicomputers would soon knock their socks off. We were
looking forward to it. I _owned_ a minicomputer, with 4 kB of ram. I
used to show it to minicomputer users. However, in the meanwhile,
before the deluge of microcomputers hit, those companies got every
dime's worth of value out of the machines they purchased.
The same thing applies to the people who purchased early model
automobiles and truck, airplanes, copy machines, supercomputers of the
1960s which had about as much computing power as today's
cellphones, and every other technology of the last 200 years. It
always goes obsolete quickly. For some users, for some purposes, it is
worth buying anyway.
- Jed
