While I don't mean to under-celebrate Mills' over-unity success, please note that this COP of 2 is to THERMAL.
However, In Mills' case, the thermal energy appears to be relatively high enthalpy and efficient conversion to electrical for feedback to the input may be possible. With a COP of 2 to thermal and with the output at 300C, it is a useful heater, but cannot be made to self-sustain by conversion of the output heat to electrical energy because at that temperature the enthalpy is low and theoretical Carnot efficiency is less than 50%. In the case of Mills' latest demo, a COP of 2 to high enthalpy (high temperature/velocity) provides an opportunity for conversion to electrical of >50% and hence the opportunity to have enough electrical feedback to supply the input power. Then the COP becomes infinite for the system. However, the diagrams that Mills showed for his MHD generator will not work at >50% efficiency. Even if he changes the B field direction to be cross instead of axial, the fluid dynamics of the system he showed in the video will prevent high conversion efficiency. I hope he has something better up his sleeve. So, while there are several LENR/over-unity COP of 2 technologies reported with thermal output, few have high enthalpy thermal outputs. The high enthalpy systems have at least a hope of doing better than breaking even or producing net power and heat (the ideal CHP system - no fuel just heat and power). The missing step in your analysis below is having highly efficient conversion to electrical having a net electrical gain of more than 1 through the entire system. Bob. On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Lennart Thornros <[email protected]>wrote: > > Why not accept COP of 2. Then you can recirculate that a few times and a > factor 64 will be there in 5 more steps. > OK it is not as fantastic and revolutionary as the many theories indicate > (btw they are way over my pay grade). I often see references to airplanes > and the Wright brothers here. Their designs did not convey the > possibilities for overseas flights in comfort. Boeing have been part of the > reason we can fly in comfort as much as the Wright brothers. > My concept would be to take the (meager) COP that is consistent and > develop that. I do understand that the engineering will be critical as > there is a need for energy conversion and five steps might be 50. > >
