You have to account for the losses in the system overall. I think each firing has 20MW, but only 8KJ is "recovered", so It's a COP of less than one thousandth.
2013/10/21 Alan Fletcher <[email protected]> > From: "Mark Gibbs" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 8:29:21 AM > > > Thanks, very kind of you to say so. > > Good to see you back in the vortex! > > Of course the "amount of energy released through the fusion reaction > exceeded the amount of energy being absorbed by the fuel" is a bit hidden > in the total power of the system. > > Let's see --- Total input = 1.7 MJ Additional Output = 8000 J > > COP = 1,700,000 + 8000 / 1,7000,000 = 1.0047 > > > -- Daniel Rocha - RJ [email protected]
