What does this mean for the laymen among us?
In simplistic terms, what is the chemical conversion process? Does it make sense that it could be exothermic?
What did the lithium and nickel change into? Matter to energy?
Bologna University and the Stockholm Institute of Technology. Interesting. Those appear to be legit independent third parties.
I wonder why that might be?
Considering a thermal to electric efficiency of 40% (generous) the plant can sell only 44% more than the electricity put in. That is, they put in 1 megawatt hour into the reactor, they can generate 1 megawatt to go back into the reactor and 440 KW for sales distribution.
The "COP factor" is the ratio of output energy to input energy. The problem for e-Cat is that the input energy is electricity, the output is heat, and electricity is much more expensive than heat. They need to get a COP ratio of 10 or more to be economically viable.
“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.
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.
Lithium - I suspect Lithium is involved in the fusion reaction. Lithium fusion has been found in brown dwarf objects and is used thermonuclear weapons (lithium being the source of tritium when cooked).
Maybe the naysayers should take all the lithium they need and let the scientists use the rest!
Bump