Andrea Rossi’s site, The Journal of Nuclear Physics, is host to many ideas and question/answer sessions with the scientist. One of the frequent posters on the forum, Dr. Joseph Fine, asked Rossi about the incorporation of heat pumps with an operating E-Cat.
Fine asked:
“Can you use a heat pump and a natural-gas driven E-Cat together to obtain greater efficiency in heating/cooling? That should be useful. Or maybe it is redundant.”
Rossi responded that it would, indeed, be possible in the right application.
Another question by Fine piqued the imagination, as well:
“If an E-Cat operates at 10% normal power, can it be used ten times longer before recharging the fuel module? (Five years versus 6 month.) This might be useful in a heat pump operation where the E-Cat is used to warm outside air or supply water going to the heat pump. (Or, maybe, the heat pump warms the outside air or supply water before going to the E-Cat.)
Rossi agreed that this would be a viable operation. Such use of the E-Cat reinforces that the temperature is variable, and the possibility of extending the service of one charge might have really good applications in remote areas.
Another poster, Herb Gillis, confirmed with Rossi that it would be possible to:
“…replace the electrical heating elements in the existing hot-ecat with tubes for hot oil (or liquid metal) heating? Then any heat source could be applied to heating the oil (or metal), and the customer can use what ever source is most economical for his situation to provide the drive.”
As Rossi said earlier, there will be more applications for the E-Cat than he could have ever imagined. Once the units are on the market, the sky – literally – is the limit.
Curious
August 23, 2012
Is this Dr Joseph Fine for real? A google with his name + physics gives nothing apart from sites related to this one?
Where is he affiliated?
Mark
August 23, 2012
One way of applying LENR to a heat pump, that would be less
stressful for the LENR reactor would be to use it in place of
the electrical resistance heating when the heat pump needs
to produce heat used with very low outdoor temperatures. This
condition happens “only once in a while” for normal heatpump
applications. In normal heatpump electrical resistance heating,
large amounts of electrical power start to be drawn when the
very low temperatures are experienced. When used by multiple
number of residences in a local, this creates a stress on the
electrical utility system to deliver it’s results. LENR then might
be fuled only once for the lifetime of heatpump and level all
excess load on the utility system for this application.
Jim
August 23, 2012
The demonstrations at the conferences are occurring. Broullion has released testing protocols and results . Sometimes it simply takes years to commercialize processes – particularly those that appear to work outside the accepted descriptions of physics. Artificial photosynthesis has been announced, the Papp engine and non electrically run solid state generators are appearing in the lab.
Scaling up reactions reliably and safely may take a while.
Consider the liability a US company now assumes in serving too hot a cup of coffee – or for producing a lighter that is cute.
It only makes sense that the designs will need to be ironclad before being unleashed on a public ready to pounce for any unearned dollar they can convince a greedy lawyer to go after.
At least the apparent effort to commercialize the product for professional use by industrial energy producers seeks to minimize legal exposure from nuisance suits while producing useful energy.
Much as I wish it were otherwise, it will probably be quite some time before the general public actually sees a LENR product in their home. The risk to reward ratio, at least in the litigious US probably makes it less than attractive to be the first out with that new consumer product. Now to live long enough to see LENR accepted by general science.
Cooling Services
December 26, 2012
When are they coming out with this technology for public to use. Please keep us posted.