From: Jed Rothwell
And yes, there is a significant qualitative difference
between COP of 6 and COP of 2.5 in terms of market value. The HotCat could
be on either end of that spectrum, based on what the last report indicated.
I am certain that you can have any COP you want with cold
fusion.
There have been a handful of runaway reactions in 23 years. Very rare. There
is no reliable evidence of infinite COP for more than a few hours, without
runaway.
Rossi accidentally achieved an infinite COP when his reactor
melted. Several other reactors have melted, exploded or vaporized.
Runaways have happened - the one of Vince Cockeram being little known and
similar to Rossi's, reported to Vortex years ago. This risk is exactly why
achieving adequate control will always require design choices that limit COP
to a lower level. As was inadvertently revealed (the 1/3 gram) AR has
apparently discovered (the hard way) that he cannot safely use much of the
nickel isotope safely. The low fuel inventory is the design choice that
forced the testing setup of Levi and the Swedes to use pulsed electrical
input and lowering the risk of infinite COP or runaway.
All discussions of the COP and all concerns about it are
bogus. This is simply not an issue now, and it never has been.
Au contraire, achieving adequate gain with adequate control is probably the
most important issue of all in the future of LENR.
The hard part is to make it stop self-powering before it
melts.
QED. It bears repeating: there is a significant qualitative difference
between COP of 6 and COP of 2.5 in terms of market value. The HotCat could
be on either end of that spectrum, based on what the last report indicated.
Jones
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