Observation of abundant heat production from a reactor device and of isotopic changes in the fuel

Sifferkol.se ^ | 10/8/2014 | Giuseppe Levi

[toast]

In this test a higher COP was sacrificed in order to have a stable reaction and simplify the calculations.

As I said before, it will take some engineering and a better understanding of the theory but the COP will increase.

[wattsgnu]

You don’t need ‘permission’ of mainstream science, but when the archive known as arXiv blocks any science papers on it, and when scientists are demoted who investigate it, and when your source of funding dries up if you pursue it, you more or less need their permission (unless you can build in your garage on your own dime).

[Boogieman]

“Measurements of the radiated power from the reactor were performed with high-resolution thermal imaging cameras.”

That doesn’t seem like it would be a very exact method of measurement to me.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

That’s what Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard did.

[taxcontrol]

The reactor operating point was set to about 1260 ºC in the first half of the run, and at about 1400 °C in the second half.

That is a bit hotter than I like my coffee (or aluminum, gold, silver, zinc, and others)

[ZX12R]

LENR (cold fusion) is confirmed as a real energy source.

Baloney. If a paper gets published in "Physical Review Letters" I might start to think there's something to it. Until then, I don't see this as rewriting the "Standard Model" of physics.

[wattsgnu]

:) very good point. and Wosniak and Jobs and Robert Goddard and few others. It is my preferred method as well, until I have something to show.

[ZX12R]

The reactor operating point was set to about 1260 ºC in the first half of the run, and at about 1400 °C in the second half. That is a bit hotter than I like my coffee (or aluminum, gold, silver, zinc, and others)

This thing will never be producing electricity, just like it's entire history. How many more years will this be dragged along by you Rossi sychophants. There is no such thing as magic.

[dhs12345]

Sort of like Edison’s approach but with more severe consequences than pungent odors or burnt fingers.

[AZLiberty]

What does this mean for the laymen among us?

The abstract says that "The total net energy obtained during the 32 days run was about 1.5 MWh." At a conversion factor of about 33 kWh/gal, this is equivalent to the energy in about 45,000 gallons of gasoline, or about 1.3 million automobile miles at 30 miles per gallon.

The total fuel supplied was one gram, and not all of it was consumed/converted. There was no detectable radiation (other than heat and light) outside of the container. The "ash" remaining from the reaction was not radioactive.

Safe energy from almost nothing. What's not to like?

[chrisser]

Sort of like Edison’s approach but with more severe consequences than pungent odors or burnt fingers.

I don't know if Rossi is legit or a scamster as others have accused him to be. But I think it's admirable that he seems to be pretty open about what he's doing.

Although I suspect he probably tried to develop it under wraps with the intention of waiting until he had a commercially viable device, but then found he didn't have the scientific ability necessary to figure out what was really going on and was basically stuck. It does explain his reluctance to release all the details - he's probably hoping others come up with enough theory that he can take it to the next level and commercialize it. If he releases all the details, then he loses control. Just my take...

[taxcontrol]

I noticed that your name / page indicated a motorcycle that can do well over 100 mph. It took a lot of technology to build that bike. I could identify several technologies used in it’s manufacture that did not exist 100 years ago. To those that were born 200 years ago, that bike would look a lot like magic.

If the e-Cat is not something that you want to be apart of ... fine, don’t invest, don’t research, don’t give it another thought. Right now, it seems like a good way to show that traditional chemistry and physics do not yet have all the answers. It may not prove to be anything more than a tool to explore some exotic form of matter transition.

[AZLiberty]

At a conversion factor of about 33 kWh/gal, this is equivalent to the energy in about 45,000 gallons of gasoline, or about 1.3 million automobile miles at 30 miles per gallon.

I completely blew this calculation.

Revision in process.

[toast]

I posted this in “front page news”. Not “breaking news”.
It has since been removed from all sidebars.

Is this how posts are sentenced to wither away?

This is a legitimate scientific paper that shows strong evidence of a world changing discovery.

But I guess the mods deem it worthy of censorship.

[OftheOhio]

Sounds like some of my xfiles work at Wright Patterson, lol. Exothermic fuels are my specialty, haha. Sounds like more research money wanted, milk it for a twenty years, federal pension type of guy.

[dhs12345]

A good manager and business person would hire an expert (under an NDA of course).

An expert might be able break the log jam.

Or it might be that the next level, proof of concept, is expensive. One cannot be too greedy. If it is legit, someone else will eventually copy it. And something is better than nothing.

[chrisser]

I would definitely agree. But people don’t always behave rationally...

[dhs12345]

Could be.

A fool and his money....

[AZLiberty]

The mistake was an improper conversion of megawatt-hours to kilowatt-hours.

1.5 MWh is 1500 kWh (or a constant net output of about 2 kW over the 768 hours of the experiment). Using the same conversion factor of 33.41 kWh/gal, this is equivalent to 45 gallons of gasoline, or 1,300 miles at 30 mpg..

Still, a remarkable amount of energy from 1 gram of material, but not the ridiculous amount I originally calculated. My apologies.

[toast]

Rossi has a backer. Industrial Heat has purchased the technology and is developing production devices. They claim to have a 1MW system in operation at a customer’s facility.

They are not currently seeking investors as far as I have heard.