Let's talk about these a bit ...... Rossi's "new materials" unit has been running w/out failure for over 30 days now.
Rossi only gives out information in little drabs and tidbits, but his followers (and his critics) assiduously pull the bits together to make a somewhat fuzzy picture.
E-Cat X is very exciting to Rossi as it works at high temperatures that are self-sustaining most of the time. Much higher than E-Cat ever reaches. The older E-Cat can make wet steam (low temp) but E-Cat X can make dry steam (engine and turbine steam) in one pass.
Rossi dropped a key tidbit:
Rossi responded: “The modules will be of 1 kW. The density of power should be doubled at the least”.OK, Individual reactors could be at most
half sized compared to E-Cat and they can potentially make "good to go" high temperature DRY STEAM in
one pass. If the energy density is 2x then half sized reactors is logical.
Next, he is going to sell 1 kw reactors instead of 250 kw reactors, so the size goes in half again ???
One Quarter the existing size ????? It becomes too tenuous of a guess at this point in time, really .....
Internal to the reactor, they are "little suns" releasing a full spectrum of visible and ultra-violet light inside the reactor chamber along with EM waves of various sorts.
As such
they can produce some electricity directly from the reaction with a simple pick up coil while producing dry very high temperature steam.
Material stresses are so up there that new materials are having to be created in a materials lab to handle the heat and pressure loads inside the little reactor at running temps, while resisting any of the corrosion effects of element isotopes ramping up from A to B to C, etc. etc.
Begins to smell a bit like straight fusion type container issues in some of the heat aspects vs the containment vessel, no ???? With ongoing elemental istotope shifting going on to boot so you got to be careful about your container material "participating" in the fun.
Let's go back to the energy density at 2x improvement at a minimum. We have already watched the 1 megwatt plant shrink from container to half container to less than a quarter container. Look at that existing 1 megawatt design again, please, then shrink it again by half to 3/4
and up the heat output way up into the dry steam range.
Current size is 2mx2mx1m or 4 cubic meters. Half that size and it is a little bigger than your washer/dryer set up for a 1 megawatt unit.
A quarter size is your washer alone.
BUT you don't need a megawatt sized plant for anything associated with a single dwelling, right? Split it into
single use applications and you see where the little single core drawing above comes into play.
Now for the megawatt plant say Steam 18 wheeler, Steam ship, Steam train, this is for the resulting half-to-quarter sized 1 megawatt plant. Say commercial building heat plant, municipal power generating station, fresh water from sea water desalinization plant. Big stuff. Important stuff.
Now let's do some little single core sized stuff like your house and hot water heater. A multi-room portable heater. Stuff like that.
The little singleton core reactor is potentially powerful enough and small enough for several of then to make up a small Steam car. Or, Heaven help us, for one of them to make a Steam motorcycle.
(you'd put two in your Elios for faster acceleration)
Plus he can start it quicker, ramp it up quicker and turn it down quicker.
Should his upcoming Beta Program be built of the new stuff, or the old stuff? Or should he simply split the two programs apart as he is already tending to do and go for a longer lasting wet steam large stationary industrial plant and leave the E-Cat X to the smaller "more mobile" applications?
Moore's Law seems to apply to E-Cats like it does to computers.
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