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Von: Alan J Fletcher <[email protected]>
An: [email protected]
Gesendet: 1:42 Dienstag, 22.Mai 2012
Betreff: [Vo]:defkalion rumour (PESN)
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http://pesn.com/2012/05/17/9602095_LENR-to-Market_Weekly_May17/
Sterling's Assessment:
...The scuttlebutt is that while the third
party test results have been positive, there have been indications of
instability and inconsistency between tests, which doesn't speak well for
production readiness.
...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Alan,
this sounds about right to me.
I would never expect any LENR-reaction to be a self-regulating process, except
for very low-power/COP systems, where it does not matter if there are some
bursts of >10x thermal output on a single-digit Watt-level.
But this is different on a say 10kW-level.
At least it seems to be self-limiting on the catastrophic end, which is a good
thing ofcourse.
Summarizing the experiences from the Italian and Greek on the one side and the
US/Japanese on the other:
a) I/G (Rossi/DGT) are quite bold in their claims of commercialable LENR
b) U/J are more on the low end, with the possible exception of Brillouin.
Nanospire being on the freaky side. Not to be dismissed as nonsensical.
The preliminary conclusion I draw from that is, that high COP/high energy
requires GOOD control.
With respect to that it seems only logical, that Rossi assembles 1MW as 50x20kW
units.
( despite of that, as the rumor goes, people had to run away from a possible
out-of-control Rossi-1MW reactor. Sorry to say, but this, plus some common
sense is what we have on the issue, and if it aligns, we should consider it.)
This is the reason why I lately tend to prefer a spark-plug based excitation
over other possibilities (eg magnetrons, classical 13MHz RF) :
It allows to cover a wide parameter-space (spark-energy, pulse-shape,
repetition-rate) by simple means.
It is one thing to have a small fire warming your teapot, another to eventually
have a vast wildfire, burning your habitat down.
This, I am afraid, eg Rossi , by way of his mindset, never considered
systematically.
His natural alliant is therefore the US-military, which is used to taking all
sorts of freaky risk-taking, where the Rossi variant is only a minor annoyance .
All the best
Guenther
