Since the last post there have been 4 brand new Parkhomov replications all ending in a meltdown in 4 different labs scattered across the globe. In all cases, the puppy lit up and showed excess energy while slowly ramping up into an uncontrolled melt down event.
(this is melting alumina ceramic, which takes some melting, believe me)
The scientific community now believes it is possible and is batting around theories and is trying to control it. Rossi simply says he spent a year and a half melting stuff down before he learned to control it .....
We got one set of guys heating theirs up in a tube oven and running 2 tests simultaneously testing different mixtures to see if they can come up with something controllable. They are ordering monitoring equipment to run 4 tests at a time.
We got another set of guys using a clear quartz tube so they can slo mo record the melt down event and try to understand the progression and stages if possible -- the quartz tube is trashed per recording experiment, but so would be an opaque alumina ceramic tube.
The race is on. Knowledge is being shared on the internet.
The USPatentOffice has final denied Rossi's Patent Application flatly stating he hasn't got a process according to the information in his application. Rossi is either going to have to spell out his technique
completely or the stuff goes open source as WAY TOO MANY have competing claims and some of the old ones claim "prior art" at this point, and as soon as a FOSS technique is described on line anyway it becomes unpatentable.
FACT: all attempts I have seen at all are hot cat style Rossi copies. FACT: Rossi's steam cat uses a different set up and different tech and works at a completely different temperature range and he has never shared any info on the steam cat, ever. Rossi may yet patent his steam technique as that is the only thing he has fully developed and can prove is "only his".
Right now Rossi is going to go commercial with the steam cat, maintaining his secrecy as his secret mix and steam control system is the only tech he still has under his sole control.
I suspect all the people working on hot cat LENR will come up with yet a new way to control the reaction as they are also developing a theory to match what they discover and may wind up understanding it better than Rossi does now.
IT IS THEORIZED that Rossi tossed the "unworkable" hot cat over to the Lugano boys to do his public demonstration with as he had run out of ideas to control the hot cat process at high COP values --- and he could only run it controllably at all at the "just barely running stage" under constant excitement as the Lugano test was done.
However, Rossi got surprised by the post run test results on the Lugano run powder since he had expected elemental copper changes to take place and instead the lithium and aluminum and other lower atomic level elements got turned into upper isotope nickel-- and there WAS no copper produced.
New stuff, huh ??? Something new all the time ......
Rossi's one year run at the commercial steam plant spends more time "non-excited" now than it does excited and the COP values are over 13 at this stage. How much higher, he won't say. The customer is simply looking at his bills from last year and comparing kilowatt hours to run the process and he is very happy supposedly as he is getting a large amount of "free steam" beyond what was expected.
Folks theorize that Rossi is using the cooling water input as a controlling variable and is water cooling/quenching the LENR process whenever it verges towards melt down, then turning the excitement back on immediately after temperature goes down below a certain threshold then cutting it off when self-sustain is reached again.
In other words, it is all very primitive right now, a balancing act on the edge of melt-down.
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