http://www.e-catworld.com/2014/09/25/1-mw-e-cat-plant-watch-thread-update-1-r...First pilot plant is now admitted to be in existence -- it is a 1 megawatt plant and
it sits a a customer's facility as some sort of commercial heating plant.
What is it? An industrial heating plant most likely. Non-military. It is already built and it is running and it is undergoing debugging and tuning as we speak.
A submarine uses steam generating plants around the 50 and 100 megawatt size and aircraft carriers use still larger plants (and at least two of them for fueling & redundancy). The Navy will wait for GE and Westinghouse to give them competitive quotes on developed products .... but trust the ship planners and designers to start incorporating liquid hydrogen storage tanks, etc into some blueprints under development ASAP.
Once again, all this secrecy stuff is a bit aggravating, but you can see now that the patent stuff has been handled that this will all move out from behind the curtain, to be revealed at a pace that the current property owners Industrial Heat, LLC decides to reveal it. They paid Rossi 11 million dollars for his first reactor and hired him to work for them under non-disclosure that binds all future work developing the idea to them, not Rossi.
Rossi as the primary patent holder for his ideas and work prior to the sale will collect a royalty payment, I am sure.Industrial Heat, LLC has large customers who will control what is known about their own new products that they are currently developing. Expect patents out of these guys as well.
Trust GE to patent the hell out of electrical generating plants and ship and train plants, everywhere that Westinghouse or GE currently goes expect new patents to be released shortly as soon as "prove out" pilot units can be built by the current competitors in that industry.
Rossi as a person however has trouble keeping his fingers quiet, he posts stuff sporadically to massage his ego and
to actively tease his critics as not being able to tell anybody anything is apparently more than he can stand.
Industrial Heat, LLC has put out
a bunch of patents pending on what they have done in the short time they have owned the Rossi process. HOWEVER, Rossi still owns the core general patent on the very base idea which has just moved forward again since he was just now permitted to show that hell yes, it really does work.
http://coldfusion3.com/blog/it%E2%80%99s-official-us-startup-admits-to-purcha... .... now what is really whacked is all the stuff Rossi has leaked out that had gotten him hooted at by the scientific community, with "assembly lines being set up to make thousands of units" being the very last item they so strongly and publicly ridiculed him over -- joke is on them, it was all true.
The core they tested might well be an early production process version of "the standard commercial heating plant core" ....
This core doesn't look hand built or poorly finished, does it? Roll crimping/welding the end caps isn't generally done apart from a production type process.Scientists in general are a bunch of closed minded know-it-all assholes sometimes, you do realize this has been true historically speaking don't you?
And the next joke is on them too, they now have to be able to state (with their superior intellects and all) what these Rossi quantum reactions ACTUALLY ARE DOING.... and Rossi isn't going to tell them what he thinks (or what his catalyst material is) since they were so durn nasty to him about the whole thing. Once they can figure it out theoretically, expect the theory to result in some other material "pairs" to become available for use as well.
And them calling Rossi an "alchemist" was not a badge of shame, it isn't too far off of being correct once you consider the historical roots of the word -- Rossi IS a quantum alchemist and his Quantum Alchemy Reactor might well wind up being somebody's new brand name.
Accidents and somebody learning how to repeat that result and
only then being able to prove how it works have been the real source of MANY scientific breakthroughs.
Think of the Amana Radar Range -- the very first microwave cooking device that hit the market. It was really kinda bulky and overpowered and sorta clunky to use too. It came about because somebody found a hot cooked pigeon on the lower edge of a radar dish .... It was just a standard Raytheon radar emitter inside a metal box.
Refinements have happened with that too, no? Much much smaller and more efficient now.
I for one don't care -- finally a source of cheap clean energy. I likes that a lot ......
Go back up to the graph and do the math -- this energy source is >100 TIMES more economical and >100 TIMES more powerful/efficient than gasoline or natural gas or coal. Right now it is limited to stationary uses, but this may change as the terahertz exciter system gets lighter and more refined. Plus,
as they learn how to ramp it up and down from low to high back down to low, you may be able to start the core just once after installing a new core and just throttle it back down low and leave it idling between your intermittent full power uses.
Just leave your car reactor idling at 300
oF all the time if the fuel is cheap enough. Car will be stay defrosted and at least partially warm in the winter time just waiting for you to get in it and go. Fill your water tank up once a week and go ride jest as much as you want to .....
Choooo ...... Chooooo !!!! chugachugachugachugachugachugachugachugachugachugachugachuga
or since it is so durn cheap you could afford the 3x efficiency loss to do a little bitty quiet steam turbine whirrrrrrr ......Everybody gets an air horn / steam whistle for a car horn !!!
WHOOOONK !!!! And you thought that Steam Punk stuff was jest bad science fiction ......