Quick updateThe E-Cat World peanut gallery contains a lot of hit and run skepto-paths who are now arguing every single point anyone makes about pursuing Rossi based LENR. Every path is wrong to them and gets derided loudly. I wouldn't read this stream of garbage willingly and I won't suggest that you guys do so either until Frank gets his list troll issues purged to a higher degree.
The trolls are getting list feedback from old established members about being "broken records" in their nasty comments. However, the trolls have no place to go since a lot of the other lists have given up and gone under lately -- having become troll havens in essence and then being shut down by their owners.
Some new rules for posting are going up, which gives the list owner a pathway to remove some of the more toxic people (if needed).
Rossi is back in Florida, working in his lab to refine his control system for a smaller discrete low load device (say a room heater as an example just pulled out of the air by me).
"His team" is working in Scandinavia on his first commercial implementation which apparently
needs that big control box (which gives you an idea of the size of commercial implementations being considered).
Rossi is now taking a path trying to recover the waste heat from his controller by using a cool input coolant flow from his heat output system, which means electrical dumping losses from his controller actually become part of his heat output.
Another way to say this is that his controller needs liquid cooling to survive as it gets bigger and bigger ......
This also means the electrical feedback spikes from the reactor must be dumped in the controller somehow as heat. For the longest time Rossi has said 10% of the E-Cat X output was electrical in nature and lo and behold we see him dumping about that much heat inside his overbuild fin and fan equipped controller box.
Larger commercial implementations could perhaps try to use this reverse spike power somehow, but folks seeing the thing run recognize that
it turns on and off within a 4-6 second cycle span and the snap they hear on shun off is likely a reverse electrical power spike that must be used somehow or or else dumped in the controller box as heat.
This also sorta means the 'Cat would likely burn itself up if it ran for more than 6 seconds without controller intervention.
So, how well the controller runs becomes the real 5 sigma test results with total reactor failure by internal melt down being the failure mode that will eventually be seen when a controller failure happens.
If any of this is real, folks begin to see why Rossi is hiding this sort of information from all his supporters and from his potential investors again. They also see why he is running his reactors way way down at the 30% output power level right now.
He is not really ready for a commercial roll out but he is working on a roll out anyway, looking for ways to customize his stuff for just that one use so he can learn some more "experientially" about his challenges.
This is what happened in Doral, and it took a half a year for Ross's partners to realize it wasn't going to pan out for them as a general thing.
If any of this is right, he is likely building himself another Doral experience which will likely have the same results.
To avoid this, Rossi needs to assemble a team that is REALLY REALLY GOOD with electrical engineering and has a lot of experience buffering energy spikes. EMP pulse guys come to mind, since they deal with shunting off really big energy spikes as their main function in life.