David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote: It will take more than just a generator and an extension cord to close the > loop. Some form of energy storage will be required to do the job. >
Correctomundo. This will complicate matters. It probably means they need batteries and inverters. As sure as day follows night, the skeptics will say these inverters and batteries are fake, unnecessarily complicated, and they are only there to hide fraud. There was a time when this field desperately needed a standalone self powered reactor to prove the reaction is real. That is because absolute power was low, ranging from 5 to 100 W. However, now that Rossi has developed high-powered reactors ranging from 500 to . . . 1 MW (I guess?) the need for standalone reactors is reduced. High-power plus a large input to output ratio together prove nearly everything that a smaller self-sustaining reaction would prove. They make it obvious that with enough engineering R&D a self-sustaining reactor can be made. The only way these results could be wrong would be if Rossi has somehow found a way to fool a watt meter. If he is capable of doing that he is also capable of making something that looks like a self-sustaining demonstration but is not. - Jed
