In reply to David Roberson's message of Wed, 6 Jun 2012 02:54:53 -0400 (EDT): Hi Dave, [snip] > >I must not understand the hydrino concept very well Robin. I thought that the >hydrinos formed by releasing energy into some other catalyst. Is this in >error?
No, that's correct. In fact even in my device if there were no fusion at all, the Hydrino formation energy should still be achieved, however it's probably not directly in a form that would be usable within the device itself. IOW it would need to be extracted in the form of heat then reconverted to electric power before it could be used. This provides however for at most a modest COP of about 6 (before electrical conversion, or only about 2 after conversion). Since this pales by comparison to the COP of 2000 potentially achievable with fusion I simply left it out of consideration. > >Why do you mention a cost of 4000 eV per hydrino? How is that number derived? It's the energy required to split the Hydrino molecules. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
