The general idea though is to get away from all those C02 producing oils and gases.
I don't think personally we will live to see the day were a mobile electrically powered unit can recharge itself and be self sustaining.
I believe there will always be a "power base", where a main system will have vast collection systems to charge the mobile systems as they need it.
Hopefully the solar road folks will be able to incorporate that into the road system they are experimenting with. (I am an avid supporter of Scott and Julie Brusaw)
Starting an ECat using a large battery bank would probably be a feasible part of a solar accessory system. Use the solar to charge the batteries which start the ECat. And solar could supplement power demands.
Like I stated last post.... I believe future homes off grid will have to have 2 or 3 systems working together.

Update on E-Cat 1 megawatt plant

The old test is OVER, existing 24 each slide in/out reactors are being pulled for analysis.   New generation reactors are being plugged in using the new "proven best mix", with a new contract being signed by the customer for the next year's worth of steam heat.

Rossi's independent party has 30 days to roll up his final report and to report the results both to Leonardo and Industrial Heat.

The old E-Cat low temp steam plant is being pitched as exactly that -- a previous version that is available if it suits your needs better than E-Cat X.

Want to just boil some water for a year, then this is your guppy.    It is available to be bought NOW, as all of its industrial safety certifications are complete at this time as well.

Want DC power too?   Get you an E-Cat X .....

    hey, they are different you know.   Nobody has licenses on tech that hasn't been invented yet.

E-Cat X development is racing along now, first industrial plant applications are coming this year.

First manufacturing site for E-CatX is going to be in Florida, USA.

It takes energy to make energy....

The idea is, to make the starting energy and production energy non-oil based.

The problem with that... it takes an oil base to make most products used to create the electronics that run the energy producers.

So where exactly are we saving our planet?

And how to you start your steam maker? wood? oil? electricity?

The "carbon footprint" is what everyone is looking at now... not just the oil or coal being burned, but how the products used are made.

it's not possible to create energy, you can only convert it
Burning fossil fuels converts the energy therein to heat, light, and kinetic energy
your brakes turn kinetic energy to heat
and we aren't saving the planet
The idea we can utterly destroy something that could clean up after mount St Helens is silly
That particular eruption put more hydrocarbons into the atmosphere than if you ran every car in  America nonstop for a year
even if we turn it into a polluted hellhole, once we're gone the planet will repair any damage we've done, over time
We;re just trying to keep from wiping ourselves out via our own stupidity

Low Energy Nuclear reaction
it's a nuclear reactor, fueled by some sort of reactionable mass
reactionable mass = fuel
It's just a much more efficient use of said fuel

And considering the probable results of a runaway, that's a good thing

Everyone should have a nuclear reactor that even the inventor doesn't understand,... warming them at the foot of their bed...

Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside...

MFMP discusses that their methodology (especially when run up at the self-destruct levels) can create "medical level" X ray energy -- and about the appropriate shielding for such.

Rossi routinely triple shields (layers of sheet metal) on all of his reactors and then sticks them inside metal enclosures yet again, so YES the Rossi people DO pay close attention to any potential X-Ray energy (and potential low energy neutrons too) that may occur with LENR.



      One questions how much accumulated X-Ray / neutron exposure Rossi got during his early experimenting years .......





I keep liking this sort of room heater using a single rossi core ......   plus you get the super nifty "soft blue glow" night light effect for free.