Posted on 10/08/2014 11:12:32 AM PDT by toast
ABSTRACT
New results are presented from an extended experimental investigation of anomalous heat production in a special type of reactor tube operating at high temperatures. The reactor, named E-Cat, is charged with a small amount of hydrogen-loaded nickel powder plus some additives, mainly Lithium. The reaction is primarily initiated by heat from resistor coils around the reactor tube. Measurements of the radiated power from the reactor were performed with high-resolution thermal imaging cameras. The measurements of electrical power input were performed with a large bandwidth three-phase power analyzer. Data were collected during 32 days of running in March 2014. 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. The measured energy balance between input and output heat yielded a COP factor of about 3.2 and 3.6 for the 1260 ºC and 1400 ºC runs, respectively. The total net energy obtained during the 32 days run was about 1.5 MWh. This amount of energy is far more than can be obtained from any known chemical sources in the small reactor volume.
A sample of the fuel was carefully examined with respect to its isotopic composition before the run and after the run, using several standard methods: XPS, EDS, SIMS, ICP-MS and ICP-AES. The isotope composition in Lithium and Nickel was found to agree with the natural composition before the run, while after the run it was found to have changed substantially. Nuclear reactions are therefore indicated to be present in the run process, which however is hard to reconcile with the fact that no radioactivity was detected outside the reactor during the run.
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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.
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).
“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.
That’s what Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard did.
That is a bit hotter than I like my coffee (or aluminum, gold, silver, zinc, and others)
:) 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.
Sort of like Edison’s approach but with more severe consequences than pungent odors or burnt fingers.
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?
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.
I completely blew this calculation.
Revision in process.
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.
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.
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.
I would definitely agree. But people don’t always behave rationally...
Could be.
A fool and his money....
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.
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.
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