Posted on 09/15/2011 7:22:32 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus
A quick video illustrating the different parts of Dr. Andrea Rossi’s 1MW plant where he will demonstrating the much-publicized Energy Catalyzer device that is based on low energy nuclear reactions (LENR).
The world is saved.
Go out and buy some old light bulbs, just for the helluva it.
Ring Al Gore's doorbell, and then run away.
Why a 1mw prototype needs extension cords to power the lights and water pump I have no idea? Or do I?
“low energy nuclear reactions “
He claims not to know how it works but somehow knows enough to call it a “nuclear reaction”??? This guy is more full of poop than a Christmas goose.
The claim is 1 MW of heat generation, not electricity.
If its true - and that’s a big if - if chemistry doesn’t explain the energy output that leaves nuclear physics does it not?
Cool. Now waiting for the data.
And, like a nuclear reactor, you should be able to convert that heat into electricity. The fact it needs external power is a bit problematic... It should be self-sustaining, like a nuclear reactor - which generates enough power to run itself and its systems as well as excess for sale/use by everyone else.
You forgot the extra energy (latent heat of vaporization) needed to turn the hot water into steam above 100C.
I'd think that kinda heat would melt the polytubing, plastic valves, and some sort of weird tape stuck all over the units of generation in some sort of series.
But hey, I give them more faith than Solyndra.
Nope. If he deosn’t know enough about chemistry to calculate what he’s got, then it is a pure guess at that point.
Suggest he change the name to something catchy like: Fuslyndra and apply for federal guaranteed loan. Trust me, the current feds will approve it with little or no documentation or economic feasibility if you tell them the magic words: Green, Campaign donations, fairy dust.
There are substantial losses converting the heat to electricity. The claim is, they generate the energy somebody else can convert it to electricity. Supposedly it requires a small fraction of that generated power to power the “reaction process”.
Chemistry may explain it. There is a lot of energy available from oxidizing the hydrogen with the oxide in the kluge. We cook our meals and heat our homes with such a reaction.
Watts is a measure of power, not energy. Power over time is energy.
It might. But that should be easy to prove. There’s only so much chemical energy available in a given amount of material. If the energy output exceeds what is chemically available you move into another realm.
Yes, but what is it in slug-ferlongs/fortnight?
The fact it needs external power is a bit problematic...
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I don’t know if the thing works or not but, the fact that it takes electricity to get it started is not a problem. All unclear reactors that produce steam need electricity to get them started, all of them.
The electricity used to start them is to run pumps, motors, sensors and controls. Once the reactor produces enough steam to spin a turbine it can be self sustaining.
If this guy has a little extension cord and produces the equivalent of 1 MW of steam I will be impressed. Unless he is adding a LOT of hydrogen it is not a chemical reaction. It would take a lot of burning of hydrogen to get enough heat to make the equivalent of 1 MW of steam.
How the conversion of steam to 1MW is made would be nice to know. If it is the steam produced from 1 MW of resistance heat then it is a lot of power.
I hope it is true, if not the guy has spent a lot of time and effort to fool people for no gain. He isn’t seeking investors.
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