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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Then again, if it is hocus pocus, no one will be able to recreate it... ever.
I always like to keep my mind open — the discovery penicillin is a perfect example. Some random, serendipitous event might be influencing his experiment. Maybe lab was a storage room for a geologist’s radioactive rocks. Or the Pepsi that he spilled on the bench is acting as a catalyst. Lol.
Then there should be plenty of money if it is legit. Or maybe they are trying to attract interest into to mainstream it. Although sounds like that already exists.
Or they have some technical issue that limits its capabilities.
I think there is plenty of money behind it.
But development takes time. Especially with new technologies.
I think they needed this test result to prove to the U.S. Patent Office that it is a working invention. For some reason Industrial Heat wants to protect the intellectual property.
I think by at least three decimal places. A 1.5MW generator burns about 100 gallons an hour. Considering it is about 30% efficient that works out to 30 gallons of diesel fuel.
IOW over a period of 30 days this thing generates at about 2.1kW
Thank you for confirming my recalculation.
No worries, sometimes we just like to believe there is something out there, then reality hits.
There IS something out there. I just made a calculating error -- and corrected it.
The demonstration that you can get the energy equivalent of 45 gallons of gasoline out of less than 0.04 oz of cheap stuff (nickel, lithium, and hydrogen) is truly remarkable -- at least as remarkable as the initial fission experiments by Enrico Fermi. The evidence of nuclear conversion of nickel and lithium into different isotopes without radiation upsets the tenets of modern physics, but is consistent with a quantity of energy that cannot otherwise be explained.
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).
I've never heard of it. But more importantly, apparently neither has Google. There is a Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
I goofed the name. It is the one you named.
BTW Seriously, you could take the time to Google that I messed up the name of the institution but couldn’t be bothered with checking out the actual source?! Well done. You proved I messed up on a detail. Thanks for your contribution to the conversation.
That is a bit hotter than I like my coffee (or aluminum, gold, silver, zinc, and others)
All of the above would have melted long before the highest temps.
Hey, toast. This latest "Rossi"-like LENR junk is t.o.a., "Toast" on arrival. And not the kind to put butter on...more like closer to yellow butter heat! . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_heat
Got that? See the temps listed?
And take a peek at this color chart --->http://www.blksmth.com/heat_colors.htm
Maybe the naysayers should take all the lithium they need and let the scientists use the rest!
As, apparently, are the same crowd of knee-jerk skeptics. I doubt that you have digested the scientific information the report contained, or even read it.
The name is a skeptopath joke---StockHolmInstituteofTechnology. Note the four capitalized letters.
The colors you linked to are for steel. The e-cat reactor was made of another material. (Alumina)
The report goes into great detail about the measurement methods, calculations, and why they were chosen. I don’t see a reason to repeat them here. I recommend you actually go and read the full report rather than just the abstract I excerpted here.
Actually I did read it and I am amused. This is a very in-depth White Paper, nothing more. A call for additional funding. I am perplexed as to why this experiment was not performed using a fluid heat sink such that a very accurate and simple heat balance could be performed. Yet, we have much less accurate and much more difficult to repeat methods being used here.... Why?
Well, at least you believers are not posting the names of my colleagues and clients again. They side with me, but you can’t tell that by the way they were included in the earlier write ups.
Close...you can’t build a bomb by mistake, but you could potentially irradiate the hell out of everything and everybody. In fact, we really kind of did that during development.
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