On Oct 13, 2012, at 9:00, David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote: > I can only guess that he allowed this operation to continue until stopped > with some form of heat extraction to defeat the process and allow the unit to > cool down.
Assuming what Andrea Rossi is saying is basically true, there may or may not be a need for active cooling. LENR is known to just shut off, on its own, for unknown reasons, during heat after death. Heat after death is when LENR continues after the input drive has been turned off; e.g. current or gas pressure. There is a legitimate sense in my opinion in which a device can continue in "self-sustaining mode," where there continues to be an input drive of some kind, and nonetheless we are not in heat after death; namely, when the entire unit is off the grid and part of the output power is being redirected into a battery that is used to feed the input drive. In this scenario there need not be an active quenching of some kind to quench the reaction -- simply disconnect the battery, at which point the system will enter heat after death and eventually peter out. My current assumption is that Andrea Rossi's numbers are basically correct, once amended, if skewed to lead to a generous interpretation, and he's just been less than careful on the delivery. Eric
