“What Rossi is doing is real but IMHO not practically scalable. I don’t “know” that he changed from 125 x 10Kw units to 300 4.5Kw units for the 1MW system, but I would guess it was due to process variability. Some of the 10Kw units produced 30-50Kw and others only did 5Kw. He found that smaller units had less variability but now he has to juggle 300 instead of 125.”
First I have read that Rossi has had to revamp the 1MW unit scheduled to go operational this fall.
Thanks phoneman08.
Old news. He made the discovery that smaller units are more stable during the "public demonstration phase" early this year, and announced this change VERY shortly after.
The interesting thing is that multiple different groups are showing very repeatable results (Rossi, Ahearn and now Godes) with similar "substrates" as used for "cold fusion" (more accurately called "lattice assisted nuclear reactions") in the past. I suspect that there is more than one way to "skin the E-Cat", and they have each found one of the avenues. And there are "hints" in past cold fusion work of each of those avenues (pulsed electric/magnetic fields, catalysts, different metal substrates).
Again speculation, but I think it is probable that a combination of their approaches may allow larger/higher power units.
It's going to be a VERY insteresting problem for the patent courts (and science) to sort out what's what.