Rossi on Going Small: Thousands of 20 Watt QuarkX Reactors to Make Up Large PlantsPosted 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 1,500o 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.