Posted on 10/28/2011 8:34:52 PM PDT by stinkerpot65
Well, the big day has come and gone. Andrea Rossi's one-megawatt-capable E-Cat cold fusion device has been tested in Bologna, Italy; and the unknown customer, who ran the test, is apparently happy.
There were some issues, so it couldn't be run at full power in self-looped mode, but what it did do was plenty impressive.
It ran for 5.5 hours producing 470 kW, while in self-looped mode. That means no substantial external energy was required to make it run, because it kept itself running, even while producing an excess of nearly half a megawatt. Rossi explained the reasons for this in the presentation he gave, which I videotaped and will be posting later.
That's half the rated capacity, but it is still a major accomplishment for the device that was completed earlier this week -- the first of its kind on the planet.
Early in the day with a glitch showing up, Rossi said that they had to make a decision about whether to go for 1 MW output, not in self-sustain mode, or with self-sustain mode at a lower power level. The customer opted to go for the self-sustain mode. Nothing was said about the prospects of a follow-up test, though I would imagine that the customer will be running many tests to understand this gadget they have purchased, and that information will be conveyed to Rossi.
(Excerpt) Read more at pesn.com ...
CF ping
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Lol cool. I thought you might have missed this. I guess you were on top of it after all. :)
Ummm, that’s why we have people who report on these events we can’t be at personally.
I prefaced my remarks that I was basing my statements on what I read from the article.
Tell me the conclusions I made that you seem to have a problem with and why, based on what I know from this article.
The article didn’t say how big their fuel tank was, or what kind of fuel they ran on. Generators run on all different kinds of fuel, I don’t know if it runs on the same fuel your smaller home generator uses. Larger generators aren’t always fueled by gasoline.
I was pointing this out because the article didn’t mention it and if it was known and put in the story, people could have determined given how full they were, how long they could have run for.
So, they left this honking big genset connected and running throughout the experiment? Gee, I wonder why they did that...
http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/theory/weakinteract.html should give anyone enough to work on.
As the universe cools folks will have an even harder time working with this sort of fire, or any fire for that matter.
Good thing we still have plenty of residual free hydrogen atoms around. If we didn't we'd never figure this out I'm afraid.
Must be a gas discharge from somewhere ~ maybe natural gas bubbles? No idea what it would be, but it didn't seem to me any of this needed to be particularly hot to occur ~ although it would yield considerable heat once it did occur.
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