http://www.e-catworld.com/2014/10/13/brillouins-robert-godes-on-e-cat-report/Brillouin’s Robert Godes on the E-Cat ReportGodes comes out in support of the results of the Rossi test, suggests some of the reactions that have been puzzing people (the missing copper and reduction in lithium) might have been due to vaporization and escape of the metal vapor or else absorption of the vaporized metal into the somewhat porous alumina ceramic body. Remember, at the point of release there is plenty of energy to vaporize the tiny bit that is reacting, even though the remainder of the powder granule does even get get melted.
Remember, that active charge weighed less than a cigarette and the alumina tube's mass was easily 500 times that large, with the "missing" elements only weighing in on the order of a hundredth part of a gram. And ceramic is porous and liquids and gasses do get filtered commercially through ceramic filters all the time.
Godes is a class act compared to many in this fray and he seems to understand and articulate his thoughts better than most. Of course he speaks English as his primary language ..... which many of the others do not.
Folks in the comments are wondering which will make it to a commercial product first, Godes or Rossi. Godes will likely do larger coal plants before Rossi does but Rossi will make it into home heating and commercial heating long before Godes finishes his first steam plant.
Rossi has already produced 3 steam plants two of which were purchased by military arms of various countries. Rossi is now getting somewhat personally over-extended and says his resources will be dedicated to getting all 3 existing steam plants up and rolling, with all of them hitting COP of 6 or better continuously, and thusly eventually getting paid for honoring his contracts on the first 3 steam generators. He has stopped production on any new 1 megawatt steam plant orders until this is accomplished --
read this as internal resources, running out of.
Rossi is still throwing out "commercializations" right and left now, one new commercialization with each new public demonstration. He is proving out the commercialization clauses of the patent laws as quickly as he can and
clarifying that he was there first.
Industrial Heat, LLC is hiring new technicians right now as more hands on deck are needed. A team of new people will be formed over each commercialization shortly. Rossi will pop between team to team as needed.
Godes will willingly share information that does not affect his coal plant & major new energy plant goals. Rossi is currently hunkered down, he isn't saying much to anybody at this stage (that last set of pinata stick wounds on his noggin haven't healed up yet).
Godes also keeps bringing up the point that all of the new energy people are actually working on the same set of reactions now, just using very different production mechanisms and control systems. Godes considers the basic nickel/copper transformation patent to be so diluted and diverse now that he spends no time trying to patent that any more, instead he patents his control system very carefully as that is currently patentable and is going to be worth more money to him in the long run.
Rossi's nickel/copper transformation patent application clearly predates Godes and the Rossi patent is getting USPO continuances while Godes patent attempt was simply final format denied
due to a prior patent application and no proof of commercialization or even of functionality in the eyes of the US Patent Office.
Godes can defend his rights to use the base reaction at the same level as any of the rest of the non Rossi guys, but if he can control his reaction better (and if his controls indeed do work "better" even with the other guy's reactions) then he has his lock screwed down tight on making the controls for this new energy source.
The person who can simplify and reduce the size of the control modules and give it really good "just verging on overheat" control is the one who will win in the end. Really, if you have 6 thermocouples per core (splitting it up into zones) and one output frequency generator per core that you are tuning the thing to keep the hottest thermocouple closely below a given set value. The ends closest to the frequency generator get the hottest at first and use up their nickel first, then the reaction moves on down the tube to the fresher nickel in the middle.
Rossi is getting experience juggling 150 of the big steam cores right now, and he does that by giving each core a dedicated controller. He has "keeping it from melting the powder" down pat now, he is still having trouble keeping the COP up over six however as the reactors keep trying to jump up too high and his current controller system is running as an on-off control which cuts the overheating core off temporarily. Rossi runs a "stutter reactor" system, in other words and his is spending too much time with it turned off. It is on until it gets close to overheat then it turns off for a while while the reactor cools down a bit.
Godes big steam plant cores are gas lifted, and his controller can increase the gas flow to separate the grains further and thus variably moderate the temperature sensitivity. The gas flow also constantly moves the powder around, keeping hot spots and burned out spots from developing.
It is a MUCH more complex system than Rossi's. Godes has two input control systems, one for excite and one for gas flow.
the Godes system also has provision for replacing the nickel power on the fly, which means they never have to shut it down, ever.Godes first plant refurb will be a huge project and will require hundreds of millions of dollars in initial investment. He is waiting for the money to get started, so Rossi having some early success is helpful to him.
Godes first "commercial plant" will be a miniaturization of his big plant ideas and will be about the size of a short electric water heater. But he hasn't built that yet either. Godes has already run through 2 million in start up capital, wants 20 million more to go to the next step .... and will need
a lot more to continue his work to his first refurbed coal plant.
Rossi is making a lot more motion using a lot less money, but he is now running out of his key Rossi resource. Industrial Heat, LLC is hiring people and forming teams to carry the work forward, one team for every major steam plant and one team for each additional commercialization that is opened up. Rossi will no longer be a one man show.
If the Patent Office will go ahead and grant the Rossi nickel/copper patents, then major existing companies could be allowed to step in and pay a royalty to Industrial Heat, LLC to run with the idea inside their own infrastructure. Carrier Group could build their own implementation of the home heating plant, as could Trane and Reem, etc. etc. No one will do this until the patent issue is settled as they would be lawsuit food if they did.
This is how the real progress will be made, the commercial big boys getting involved.
Please note that South Korean companies routinely ignore any US patents and go forward anyway, letting their legal departments stall and delay and in the end settle the resulting patent violation issues. Samsung does this all the time nowadays as "time to market" is their primary driver. China just takes the idea and permits no lawsuits if they have a conflicting patent (which they now do, btw). Sweden just honors existing patents and pays the relatively small royalties.
The issue is now "best control", as the facts of the reaction, that it is real, is somewhat of a done deal now.
Rossi needs to show us a vertical core that has an electric vibrator at the bottom to remove the burned out powder to a sealed dump tube. A sealed infeed tube to refill replacement powder at the top to balance out what is removed at the bottom completes the system. He can't copy the Brillouin hydrogen gas float system but he can do a powder replacement mode inside his larger static core system that he has now using simple air or electric powder vibrators.
Until Rossi shows this, he becomes limited to replacing or recharging his larger cartridges one by one by one. For his smaller plants this isn't a big deal, but for the LARGER power plants he will need to be able to run them all the time, 24 hours a day at full power.