http://www.e-catworld.com/2015/06/16/1-mw-hot-cat-plant-to-follow-current-1-m... Rossi has announced what is coming up next AFTER the current 1 megawatt plant clears its test period and is turned over to the customer's employees for long term production running.
Get used to Rossi talking Low Temp Steam and High Temp Steam ..... you will need to know which plant is being talked about going forward.
First, the original 1 megawatt Low Temp steam plant actually turned out to be a ~2~ megawatt Low Temp steam plant by the time the discovered efficiency gains were all run into place.
It is only needed at the 1 megawatt capacity right now, so only half the reactors are needed at any given time. Rossi exceeded the capacity and uptime and energy savings requirements set by the customer by almost a factor of two, so this plant approval is pretty much a done deal at this point in time.
Rossi is shifting development over to High Temperature HOT CATS now, and the starting size is the larger 250 kilowatt size he just developed.
Take a deep breath here -- 4 of these plug in suckers could make up a 1 megawatt LENR plant in a single "horizontal cores vertically stacked" in a single stainless pressure vessel, with two cores down in the water making low temp steam and two running higher up bone dry -- to super heat the steam on up into full superheat conditions.
Could, but likely will be built as 2 COMPLETELY SEPARATE pressure vessels of 4 cores each so as to have full production running maintenance available (with full redundancy built into the system).
This could then run a small, right sized standard steam turbine -- we are talking electrical power generation on a business or large house size scale.
Or an 18 wheeler power plant, or a ship power plant, you get the idea. ...... once you have high temp steam you can do just about anything you want with it.
Right now the equipment is too large for a car sized plant, but miniaturization will happen over time, you know.
Or, since you are talking glowing white hot cores now, you could hook only two of them up (maintenance redundancy, remember) to a Kamen/Musk Cyclone "recycling" stirling engine power plant which is an already commercially available product. This would be a normal house sized system, providing electricity, house heat, hot water and (after the old ideas go back into use in real commercial products again) thermal induced air conditioning. Your remote property could have off-grid power, and if you lived on grid you could sell your excess electricity back to the power company as credit for times you need more power than your plant can provide.
Folks, look to see more players building pilot plants now, since the cat is firmly out of the bag now. Brillouin will get his 20 million from somebody soon enough to built a larger commercial pilot plant using his control ideas (or maybe not since Rossi's plants are proven out now and
they only cost half as much to build an "at will upsizeable" main production plant).