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Von: Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>
An: [email protected]
Gesendet: 13:26 Samstag, 24.März 2012
Betreff: Re: [Vo]:Thane Heins continues with his bold claims
>I forgot to mention Reason #3 this cannot be a heat pump:
>3. It works without input power (self sustaining, or heat after death).
>You can forget about the heat pump hypothesis.
>- Jed
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The question is not whether this is equivalent to a heat pump -which a LENR
device is definitely not.
It is a question of feedback of excess energy into the process.
In the case of thermal feedback, this is trivial. the system goes into a
self-sustained mode, simply by consuming a certain amount of thermal energy to
sustain itself.
But this is an unwanted condition, because of feedforward thermal runaway.
The sensible thing to do, is to control the process via a decoupling mechanism:
heat->electricity->RF etc.
This leads to a slight loss of COP, but the big advantage is a controllable
process.
I do not see this in any designs right now. It is more implicit than explicit.
High-power devices need a control well below shut-down by self-destruction, ie
Nickel melting etc.
The COP-issue basically is a non-issue, maybe as low as down to COP 2 to 3, or
even lower. This is an engineering issue but not one of principle.
My two cents.
