[ “I agree with the heat and hot water, but power cars and trucks will require a conversion process for useful energy. If they can come up with more efficient and economical thermoelectric generators, then there will be more far reaching applications, including self-sustaining reactions.”
A “conversion process” already exists. It’s called “steam”, and was originally “a contendah” for automotive power.
For a time, the Stanley Steamer was actually superior in reliability and performance to ICE driven autos. The thing that killed the steam car was the fact that it took too long to “crank up”. Given today’s capability for automatic controls, that shouldn’t be a problem....just keep the E-Cat “ticking over” at a low level to keep the batteries charged (still need electricity for the various electronics.
Thermoelectric conversion not required. Nice to have, and probably more efficient, but not necessary. ]
Well plug it into the “grid” when you are at home to help power the house when it is running on “low level output” it if is generating enough energy at idle to re-charge the batteries then after ti is done re-charging those the onboard computer can switch over to help power the home.
Indeed. This is one of the supposed advantages of electric cars, except in reverse. The theory is that you recharge the car overnight (which lets the generating plants run at a more constant level, and hence more efficiently). And if you install an alternate energy system (solar cells, windmill) to recharge the car, it can supplement the grid when the car isn't charging (and the sun is out or the wind is blowing).
If Ross's gizmo pans out, it will be "very interesting" to see what direction things take.