>From Rossi's presentation on the hotcat there is a 5.2kW unit with length 33 cm, outer diameter 9 cm, inner diameter 3 cm. 4kg of nickel. Steel casing.
5.2kW I derived from 6 month recharge cycle of 1 gm hydrogen yielding a total of 23MWh. These numbers were gleaned from the chat stream along side the live video stream. On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 1:01 PM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > The takeaway message is that there is* a 4-month delivery for a heating > system <http://ecat.com/ecat-products/ecat-1-mw/ecat-1mw-technical-data> that > has a lower levelized cost per thermal unit, including O&M, Fuel and 10 > year straight line depreciation, than current natural gas price per thermal > unit alone. > > > 1dollar/MWh+1dollar/MWh+((1.5e6dollar/10year)/1MW)?dollar/1e6btu<http://www.testardi.com/rich/calchemy2/> > > ([{1 * dollar} / {mega*Wh}] + [{1 * dollar} / {mega*Wh}]) + ([{1.5E6 * > dollar} / {10 * year}] / [1 * {mega*watt}]) ? dollar / 1e6btu > > = 5.6045044 dollar/1e6btu > > Current natural gas price for commercial heating is > $8.22/1e6btu<http://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/ng_pri_sum_dcu_nus_m.htm> > . > > The proximate significance of this would be that even if a commercial > business immediately writes-off the sunk-cost of a heating system on the > order of 1MW (3.4MMbtu/hour), it still makes sense to replace it > immediately. > > *The meaning of “is” here must be qualified as follows: If you have $1.5M > to place in escrow, you can have your engineers perform whatever > non-destructive tests you like to certify the system. >
