http://www.e-catworld.com/2015/08/06/a-clearer-picture-of-the-1-mw-e-cat-plan...This past year Rossi has invented and built and proved out a much larger 250 kilowatt "tiger" core
which is not a hot cat variety that is much more efficient than the old e-cat cores. COP is well over 20 at all times, with some tigers apparently churning out over 100 COP due to some very long self sustain run periods. This core can apparently exceed the melt temperature of nickel in areas of the core and keep on making heat.
And remember, this is gen 1 on the tigers with the software under development, so it will only get better over time.
Remember, right now this one vertical rack makes up a 1 megawatt steam plant. All current plans for small to mid-sized commercialization seem to revolve around this core type. This is the core type that sees all the distributors in all the countries beginning to take pre-orders to sell steam heat.
Industrial Heat did NOT buy all of Rossi's IP, and they certainly did not buy any new stuff that Rossi hadn't invented yet. I think the head of IH was telling the truth when he said that IH and Cherokee simply backed Rossi with the needed capital at a critical juncture in order for him to make the jump to from theory to commercialization and that IH does not have any hands on ownership in the development process per se.
Industrial Heat is the Rossi distributor for the Americas and China however. Industrial Heat likely is represented on the Leonardo board, but details like this have never been disclosed.
The little 10 watt cores of the original 1 megawatt steam plants are all pretty much water over the dam now, and the original 1 megawatt plant is running off the 4 tigers now with all the banks of 10 watt cores sitting there as "total failure backups". Drop in an extra 2 tigers for maintenance/redundancy and you could yank out a container full of racks for the small no longer current cores.
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Rossi still needs to develop a still
much larger unit replaceable cluster system, a 10 megawatt cluster, which will be the size required to move on into coal fired power plant refurbishment work. Rossi's newest large core designs seem to be hot cat varieties, but so far have not shown the needed long term durability yet.
To do this development work he will need a very large commercial boiler to utilize the output from such a mega cluster.