The wizz bangs in academia have futzed with, replicated, scaled up and down and vacuum chambered the reactionless space drive to the point they want to put one out into space and turn it on.

Once again, they still don't know how it works, so they got questions about if it will really work out in space (away from Earth's magnetic field) and indeed there is only one way to get it completely out of Earth's magnetic field.

They are really gonna launch one out into space, point it out at deep space and turn it on.

Just the drive, 4 small steering jets,  the power supply and a transponder radio and a large tinfoil radio/radar cone rig up so they can track it easily as it goes "that a way" at a constant low acceleration.

They will spend MILLIONS and millions of dollars to do this test, so it must be promising enough to get that kind of funding.

Rossi is back with the E-Cat X, having worked through some materials and controls issues discovered as they attempted to design a realistic robotically assembled cell for ease of manufacturing.  

Current E-Cat X cell is around the size of a AAA to AA battery with this first size being output sized at "mild" 20 watts, ie possibly a multi-cell room heater type of product that will also output charging power for laptops and other modern low draw battery powered sorts of stuff.   Could also be a lamp/convection heater type of thing, depends on refinements down the road.

Industrially, Rossi will put lots of these little 100 to 200 watt cells into a megawatt boiler system to make up a 1 to 5 megawatt plant that has no potential entanglements with IH, period.   As he gets better at building them, the size and wattage will go back up to over 100 watts for each AAA to C cell sized reactor.    

A half or quarter megawatt small boiler plant built out of 100 watt AA sized cells may wind up being very compact and therefore relatively more affordable.

Rossi has begun consult actively with experts in certain fields, leveraging the knowledge gained in the fission industry concerning more durable heat and "conversion resistant" materials.   He is also consulting with electronics folks to get his control systems built both better and more cheaply.


Rossi Reports Recent “Tremendous Progress” with E-Cat QuarkX
Posted on September 30, 2016 by Frank Acland • 10 Comments
Andrea Rossi today responded to a question from a reader who asked him what the eventual model of the QuarkX reactor (Rossi’s most recent version of the E-Cat). He responded:

Andrea Rossi
September 30, 2016 at 4:00 PM

Andrea:
Yes, in these last days we made tremendous progress.
The modules will be real “quarkx”, they will have a power of 20 Watts each.
The dimensions will be very small and they will be able to be combined without limit of quantities.

The COP is very high, and the small power/module is necessary for safety reasons.
They can produce heat, light, electricity, but the main application will be to produce heat and eventually turn it into electricity by Carnot cycle. It is possible also production of light and direct electricity, but the highest efficiency is achieved making heat an eventually use the Carnot cycle for other energy forms.

We are very close to industrial applications, we are making important measurements and I am very happy of what is going on.
Ad majora,
Warm Regards,
A.R., from the bench of the QuarkX

Key points to me:      (E-Cat World editorial comments)

1. The QuarkX now is rated at 20W, whereas previously Rossi had said that the smallest unit would be 100W. So for some reason they have made a decision to go smaller. Perhaps this is for safety reasons. Rossi has said that they had been experiencing problems with the reactors overheating, and it makes me wonder if they have found the problem is lessened if the reactors are smaller.

2. While the QuarkX reactors can reportedly produce electricity and light directly, Rossi says that it will be more efficient to produce electricity from the heat of the QuarkX via the Carnot cycle; i.e. using the heat to turn steam turbines. If the COP really is ‘very high’ (Rossi has said recently that it is similar to the COP of the E-Cat plant in the one-year test which he claims was around 50), then efficiency of the electricity production would be very good.

3. Rossi saying they are ‘very close’ to industrial applications sounds encouraging; however, that is still indefinite. I try to temper my expectations in this area — we’ll see it if and when we see it.

4. Rossi reporting being ‘very happy’ about the current state of affairs might be significant. The fact that he says they have made ‘tremendous progress’ might signal that they have successfully dealt with overheating issue they have been experiencing. Incidentally, Rossi said that the specialist they had brought in from California to help them to deal with this problem was a “retired officer engineer of the US Navy.”


In other areas ....  Rossi is generally content with the progress in the IH lawsuit, as most of IH's various twittering objections for the sake of confusion have been summarily rejected by the judges.   Next, the entire crop of IH countersuit items have been reduced to just two, with the rest considered summarily rejected.    Court date is set for next year .....

Rossi's primary attorney and one ancillary attorney just got picked up by a much bigger law firm as Rossi's account seems to be considered "worthwhile business" since he is going to be using legal services quite a bit going forward as he one-by-one sues the folks who are using his IP that was ILLEGALLY transferred to them by IH.

This next level of legal action will take place in a different court, once the current judges (2) make the initial monetary judgements concerning IH violating the terms of their agreements with Rossi.

Rossi on Going Small: Thousands of 20 Watt QuarkX Reactors to Make Up Large Plants

Posted on October 3, 2016 by Frank Acland • 11 Comments

Andrea Rossi has been answering a number of new questions about the QuarkX reactor on the Journal of Nuclear Physics since he revealed that each reactor is now smaller than ever in terms of power output. The reason for its reduction from 100W to 20W is, according to Rossi, for safety reasons. He said:

“Safety is first. Making modules of 20 W of power, it is much easier to control them. Combining them, we can reach any power rate we want in small space. Like Quarks…

Gerard McEk asked some questions; here is the Q&A:

What worries me is that because of this development you may need to go again through a new full test cycle again for getting the 5 sigma on all aspects.
1. Is that true? no
2. Does each QuarkX need to be separately controlled? no
3. Does such a small unit not automatically mean more control complexity for big clusters? no, the contrary is true
4. The ability to recharge seems more difficult for such tiny units, is it still possible? yes, by substitution on the site of the Customers and recharge in our robotized line
5. If so, do you think of replaceable and recyclable units? yes
6. I assume that using the QuarkX in a jet engine is now one of your favorite applications, am I right? C.B.N.* ["Crystal Ball Needed]
7. When do you think you are able to produce a large cluster of QuarkX’s? soon

Bill Conley asked whether making so many small reactors would mean that refuling them prohibitively expensive or at least make maintenance significantly more expensive and if the QuarkXs were now considered disposable or swappable. Rossi’s response:

No, the maintenance is easy. The modules will be replaced and recharged in our factory. Imagine to substitute fuses in a control panel.

So what Rossi seems to be describing here are reactors that are easily swappable in and out of a plant as if you were changing fuses — nevertheless we’re talking about 50,000 fuses (if the plant was 1MW) which would be highly labor intensive and complicated if you were to install/replace each one individually (imagine how many you could drop or lose inside the plant!). So I would think that they must be planning for a way to have multiple QuarkX’s on some kind of circuit board that could be easily snapped in and out. If, as Rossi indicated above, each QuarkX does not need a separate control system this may be doable. It’s also interesting to me that he says that having many small QuarkX reactors require less control complexity than for large systems.

Rossi says that they will ‘soon’ be able to produce large clusters of QuarkX’s, which would require the manufacturing facility would need to be in place. On the JONP Nils Fryklund asked about this:

Are the plans on a factory together with ABB-robots in Sweden postponed due to security problems with Quark X? AR: No.

So plans for manufacturing seem to be going ahead, however he doesn’t actually say whether the factory is ready yet.


Rossi has mentioned organizing the round QuarkX AAA sorta battery like things into tubes of 5 for ease of replacement.   A long tube of 5 would be 100 watts of heat, and 10 long tubes would be 1,000 watts of heat.    

Yes, you could build a room radiator type heater off of these things, but the cost per QuarkX would have to be very low at the considerable quantities needed for replacement/recharge each year.

Rossi is driving towards a first saleable product, this first product may not be "optimal" but  as long as it actually is made and sold, then normal good 'ol human ingenuity will improve on it year on year on year (once people can buy design rights to design their own products using the Rossi tech, anyway).



It is also quite clear Rossi intends to supersede the tech that IH thinks that they own, pending getting a favorable court decision that IH did indeed forfeit all rights to Rossi's tech by welshing on that last 89m payment.   Unless Rossi gets a favorable decision from the court, then the old long welded up "low temperature" bar style of reactor core is PERMANENTLY last years news, likely forever.

Remember, that long welded stuff was COP of 50 (and quite amazing at the time) but people are now looking at COP over 100 out of what Rossi is doing right now, with the COP going over 200 when it decides it likes itself and starts up one of them "heat bump episodes" that Rossi is struggling to understand and control.   And at over 1,500^o F so you need to get a good feel for just how HOT hot can be.

Let me bend your mind a bit about this tech being used inside my proposed small radiator style room heater.   You have a Rossi little AAA battery 5 cell set inside a tube inside a tube inside a tube inside the water filled radiator system.    Why?   The Rossi cells actually run at a blindingly bright white hot state and that  1) is a fire hazard and  2) that puts out a bright light of mixed frequencies you may not want to be looking at, ever.   Think of looking at an arc welder .....

AND, for some good paranoid radiation protection (and to put in a relatively inexpensive liquid that can stand the heat transfer duty being asked of it between the first shell and the second shell) is a fair thickness of LEAD which always melts in use and acts like a convection transfer fluid.   Rossi has used lead for this use all along, but it has never been needed it more since he now has a point source for the heat instead of a large flat area plate or long rectangular bar type heat source.

Second to third shell is filled with a fluid from the current nuclear transfer fluid list, which will convection transfer from the molten lead filled shell to the water in the radiator, something which can get quite hot but not be heat destroyed over time.  

So by this method you go from a super above white hot point source to a gentle room heating radiator, giving you ample thermal and radiation protection levels, naturally.

Lets talk about some of the odd "running effects" which are just now being mentioned at all.   There are apparently types of new non-radiation effects are NOT being documented and NOT discussed openly until shielding for the same is all worked out and PATENTED.   When Rossi says "safety" think of a unknown effect that requires shielding, shielding that is certainly patent-able and will delay things until the patents are actually granted.

Some of these running effects are things only seen at CERN before, things that question our current time/space model of matter and how it works normally.

It isn't radiation like we think of it today, but instead is listed as "some sort of Other effects".  Think of something akin to a residual magnetic field, but that has no detector developed yet apart from CERN labs and such that are just now seeing it .....

Rossi, you need to be careful old son -- remember Marie Curie, please.




There are 6 basically different methods of LENR that being investigated that we know about, plus 3-4 top secret military methods that are totally in the black at the moment.    Even if Rossi fails, somebody else will eventually succeed in making a commercially feasible method.

As has been mentioned, LENR first showed its face over 100 years ago in arc lights and in open arc welding.   It was NOT recognized by science as they could not explain it at all .....  so in true group think they ignored it.

Now, after both LENR and the EM Drive having been proven to be real, but NOT explained by science, some eyes have popped open and folks are openly discussing other "known anomalies".


Article: ‘Anomalous Heat detected in Lead Carbon Hydrogen Systems’ (Looking For Heat)

Posted on December 4, 2016 by Frank Acland • 4 Comments
Thanks to Alan Smith from Looking For Heat who has forwarded me a link to a new article published on the LFH website titled “Anomalous Heat detected in Lead Carbon Hydrogen Systems: Simple and Accessible, But is it LENR?” Authors are Alan Smith, Sam Hansson and Martin Moore.

The full text is available at: http://www.lookingforheat.com/anomalous-heat-detected-in-lead-carbon-hydrogen...

Here’s the abstract:

While investigating the electrolytic activation of granular carbon for use as a catalyst for generating pure hydrogen from water and a metallic hydroxyl ion acceptor, members of a research group here and in the USA witnessed sudden and unexpected evolution of considerable amounts of thermal energy, and the release of what is probably Beta radiation. In all cases this resulted in (at least) the breaching of the electrolysis cell. We present a full account of the test methodology, a hypothesis for the origin of the heat element of this event, and offer assistance to researchers who would like to investigate this further.

This stuff would be dirt cheap to do, if they can figure out how to start it and stop it and control it in the in-between times.

http://www.e-catworld.com/2016/12/09/rossi-us-military-engineer-performing-th...

Rossi: US Military Engineer Performing Third Party Testing on the QuarkX
Posted on December 9, 2016 by Frank Acland • 62 Comments

Andrea Rossi has been posting on the Journal of Nuclear Physics about some new testing that has been taking place at Leonardo laboratory. Here are some of the comments and Q&As from the JONP about the testing.

Q: Can you tell us more abut the test on course today with the QuarkX? AR: It is a measurement made by a third party: it is confirming our data so far.

1. Is this third party a potential customer or partner? AR: no, he is an engineer from a military concern of the USA.

2. What was tested, and how long did the test take? AR: is on course a three days test of the COP and the stability, which means reliability

3. What has been their response to what they have witnessed? AR: so far so good ( hoping this is not a case in analogy with the guy arrived at the height of the 3rd floor after falling from the 10th floor )

4. What do you think will be impact on commercialization of your technology? AR: substantial

Q: Dr. Rossi, some people might have concerns about being involved with the military, clearly you do not feel this way. Obviously they can contribute enormously to the development of your reactors, though they might introduce complexities such as secrecy. What is your opinion on working with the military? Do you see them as simply customers like any other? AR: The engineer who is working with us is not a customer, he is a very skilled man from whom I am learning and that is making a fantastic job with the measurements. I prefer military engineers, because their preparation is superior in average.

Q: I hope that the military will not seek to have exclusive access to your products. Do you think that is a possibility? AR: no

1 – Do you trust this third party individual implicitly and whole heartedly? AR: yes

2 – Will this individual witness the construction of the Quark (s) that are too be tested? AR: yes

3 – Will a control or “dummy” Quark be utilized in the testing as a real time comparison? AR: useless: every system with a COP = 1 or less is comparable

4 – Will he be informed as to the fuel composition of the Quark? AR: no

5 – Will he only be testing for thermal output or also electrical? AR: thermal

6 – Will the test be recorded from start to finish on video? AR: no

7 – Will he be writing a paper about the results of the test, positive or negative? AR: no: internal

Q: Is the military engineer the same person who came to see you previously, and who helped you solve the problem with the QuarkX reactors overheating? I recall he was from California. AR: No, this one is another and I work with both of them.

As usual, we have only the report from Rossi here, and we should make of this what we will. This third party testing is apparently only for internal purposes, so we are unlikely to ever see a report come out of this. An internal third-party test from a military engineer could be useful for Leonardo to have on hand for marketing purposes, even if it was made available on an NDA basis.

OK, Rossi is checking off all his pre-production boxes, getting all ready to present a CONFIRMATION TESTED device that has a credible military expert witness who has just conducted a 3 day confirmation run.  

By February Rossi will have also completed a EU 5 Sigma Certification process run as well.   Rossi has learned a lot from the IH mess, and he is doing things somewhat differently this time around.

I don't have sufficiently negative words to explain how I see Bill and Melinda Gates. Rossi needs to steer clear.

http://www.e-catworld.com/

Just pull it up and LOOK at it --- all choked with final pre-commercialization tests, "expert" 3rd party measurement audits, and the formation of advisory boards and the building of multi-billion $$$ stock fund consortiums.

Might you think something's getting ready to fly ?????            

'Ol steely eyes up above intends to own a chunk of it, too.