Ping!
I do not expect to see an e-cat car within the next decade. An e-cat locomotive engine or ship is much more likely within the next 10 years (assuming, as always, that the thing works). This still would have a huge impact on diesel usage, and thus on diesel prices.
I’m not aware of any eCAT technology being discussed by any current physics journal.
As such, I’m inclined to think that these folk’s have about as much technical ability as a liberal democrat.
Time will tell, and I hope that I’m proved very, very wrong.
This is an area where I hope to be very, very wrong but this has the sound and smell of all of the shams since the Dean drive. Please let me be wrong.
The link leads back to this FR post. Where is the link to the original article?
So we are supposed to believe that everyone else: universities, governments, corporations are building their own versions of this in total secrecy?
Either:
1. There’s no there there.
2. The above enitites are real good at keeping secrets.
3. There is so much skepticism that the above enitites are holding back, and reading threads like these.
I vote for 1.
In a bit of a bombshell moment, an apparent casual answer to a question about a photo on evworld, we learn from Andrea Rossi that advances in safety and control may lead to the 1MW plant being run in self-sustain mode."advances in safety and control" to maybe allow self-sustaining operation??? Sorry - This one point is, to me, the biggest red flag whole shootin' match.
If the eCAT's output is unstable to the point that it can't be tapped and allow a small portion of it to be fed back to its input, what does that say about it providing usable output energy?
The device produces heat (and/or steam). We've been converting those forms of energy into electricity for many, many decades. Control systems for electricity are quite mature technology and very stable, regardless of the source providing the electricity.
I’m all for the E-Cat but I can’t see how these heating units will make my car go, not anytime soon. Now, for anything using boilers or requiring hot water/steam, like a ship, a yacht, industrial plants and of course, power plants, the E-cat looks promising.
For a car, I am imagining using a refined, specialized miniature E-cat electrical generating system powering the electrolysis of water for hydrogen. Or for charging batteries, maybe.
Hinting they may have the feedback loop or loops working up to snuff.
My guess would be independent mechanical and electronic in nature.
I assume when you’re talking about a “steam engine” you are referring to a closed-loop recovery system which uses some “propellant” medium other than water...much like an automotive AC system, only in reverse.