No. Remember, he QUENCHES the reaction by increasing the coolant flow and cutting the external heat supply.
"I assume he can also control the flow of hydrogen but from what I've read. He purges the container of all gasses and then he introduces the H2 under pressure and then stops the flow and I thought he wasn't topping off the H2. It's possible that enough H2 is in the system to run twelve hours but for six months, I would assume that he has to replenish the H2 in the reaction chamber so he would need to control that as well."
Control of the hydrogen flow is a VERY slow-acting control mechanism. You're right in that just the hydrogen inside the reactor will continue to react for a long time. Controlling the hydrogen PRESSURE "might" be a faster acting control parameter, but again, controlling pressure is more expensive and takes more hardware than controlling the heat input via a cartridge heater. If you remember, VENTING the hydrogen and rapidly dropping the internal hydrogen pressure of the "core" is/was his "emergency shutdown" case of last resort if cutting the added heat and increasing the coolant flow wasn't enough to get it stopped.
"So are we ceding our scientific advances to other countries, that doesn't sound good in the long run."
Well, it's not quite that bad. There are plenty of other very large companies with good R&D organizations. But there needs to be a bit of a turn-around in management thinking on the value of R&D, or we will be in a world of hurt.
OK, I'm a moron, because I thought I read he increased the heat to slow the reaction. I'll try to find what made me think that.
It makes perfect sense to keep the heater on and at idle, you increase the heat to increase the reaction if it lags so you're not starting it cold which takes time, you increase the water flow to decrease the reaction, now that makes perfect sense.
The hydrogen is definitely a slow reaction. I watched two videos during lunch and it showed a fat-cat that they had just added 3 grams of H2 which actually seems to be a lot of hydrogen considering it's weight and I'm way to lazy to attach a volume to that. Then they shut it off. It seems that it runs fine and then they top it off again so I don't know how much of a fine control they need for the H2.
But there needs to be a bit of a turn-around in management thinking on the value of R&D, or we will be in a world of hurt.
I've worked for two startups where although they paid well, the big payoff was the stocks since we put in 12 to 16 hours days because we believed in the product and it did pay off. Where are the VCs for this kind of research? The CEOs for both of the companies I worked for got big VC dollars after they did the proof of concept so what's the deal? Everyone used to talk about 'Microsoft millionaires', if this technology pays off were talking about LENR billionaires. Especially if Facebook is worth billions which I don't understand since I don't use Facebook. Are we becoming more narcissistic or what; what is Facebook selling?