Brillouin/Godes is still waiting for somebody to fund their first 1-10 megawatt steam plant ($20 million). Brillouin/Godes concept of "all the cores inside the same reactor" means his plant must have a powder change system built into it that allows powder changes on the fly. If his plant were to get sick, it would have to be totally shut down tor full teardown disassembly/maintenance. This is a disadvantage when the whole process is a brand new processs as nobody wants to shut down a key production process while you work on it.
A Brillouin/Godes steam plant is MUCH more complex internally than a Rossi steam plant, and is
much more expensive to build. A Brillouin/Godes plant would likely scale up size-wise better than a Rossi plant would, but a big one would cost a WHOLE LOT more money to build.
Rossi has prototyped much larger, leg sized cores but has never built a steam plant with them yet. He calls them Super Cats .... and they are hard to keep from overheating in spots internally.
Rossi's current 1 megawatt steam plant only costs 1.5 million dollars to buy. Rossi has done 3 each of his one megawatt steam plants now and he has been making progress at his basic design. Needless to say, the cost will go down when customers license the technology and begin building the things in volume.
His first plant took 150 large E-Cats to get the job done. This last plant, the one located inside a customer production facility that is running against a real production related changing load has gotten continuous updates to the software & the cores and has been
DOWNSIZED cat by cat to keep the output down at the required level.
Better control and heat tuning means fewer E-Cats are needed to do the job.
Rossi is currently running 103 of his large E-Cats to get the job done. This is a 31% efficiency increase since he started this particular plant up.
The 47 E-Cats taken out of production due to efficiency increases is one entire BANK of E-Cats. This now means the Rossi plant can have simultaneous maintenance done on an entire bank of E-Cats come powder change time without interrupting production. This is an advantage.
Plus Rossi has shown his model is "update friendly" as his more advanced newer power cores can be plugged in at will since the flange design is consistent. Indeed, it seems his old stuff can be rebuilt into his newer stuff at rebuild time, which saves the customer money.
Plus, buying a Rossi plant can be painless. Rossi will rent-to-buy the plant for you, you just pay him the standard industry rate for steam produced and the surplus goes towards your plant purchase. Bean counters LIKE this, as they pay out a current expense that is the same money as what they have been spending and in a few years time they suddenly own an asset that they didn't have to pay capital $$$ for.
General Managers like this plan too as Industrial Heat, LLC owns the steam plant and all the teething problems until it is totally worked in, settled in, your various maintenance and production people are all trained
and it is totally paid for. This is a smart way to handle an emerging technology as it CHANGES AND IMPROVES so very rapidly, getting better and better all the time on Industrial Heat's dime.
Rossi's model is an easier sell, especially when he can show a track history of putting plants into industrial concerns successfully and Brillouin is still stuck at the starting gate due to his big starting price.
Rumor has it that Industrial Heat LLC has a production partner in China now. This is not confirmed,
nor is the China patent for whatever is going to be built there.
There are signs of LENR motion going on in China, however ...... they have an entire large government agency that was just formed for the pursuit of alternative energy sources that is headed by the son of the former Premier. Several Chinese companies have applied for LENR like patents just recently and one of them may be a Rossi partner company.
I am still looking for that Chinese room heater unit .... they may just plug it as "high efficiency" heating elements similar to all those ceramic room heaters that are out there now and wisely leave off all the LENR and "reactor" BS that would scare people to death and bring down the Atomic Energy Commission on their heads.
Just say it is a high efficiency heating element that is 3-4 times more efficient than previous electrical heating elements.
I mean its not like they actually know how it really works or anything like that ....