Frank Acland recently asked Andrea Rossi some really good questions about E-Cat manufacturing, and got some good answers from Andrea Rossi. In response to Mr. Acland’s question, Rossi replied that hybrid systems are, indeed, quite possible. We were all excited to learn that the E-Cat could be powered by gas, since this makes it far more possible to set up E-Cats in remote regions to provide power. The acknowledgement that hybrid units can be made available sweetens the pot.
Mr. Acland also asked:
“Approximately how many reactors can be manufactured in a day at the moment?”
Mr. Rossi’s answer was surprising:
“With the outsourcing network already organized, if necessary we can manufacture thousands per day, if necessary.”
This is really exciting news, and we can’t help but wonder how soon the Hot Cat plant being manufactured will go online, so that the world can see for itself that LENR actually works.
Another question from Mr. Acland got a newsworthy answer:
“Approximately how long does it currently take to build a hot cat plant?”
Rossi replied:
“One module of 10 kW take 5 man hours, right now, but with a robotized line this number can be reduced to less than 1 hour.”
It sounds like the robotized lines are already being planned. In addition, the man hours required for the manufacture of a 10 kW unit is remarkably low. This is exciting news. It sounds like Leonardo Corp. and the U.S. partner are ready to hit the road running, as they say in the U.S.
Patrik
March 6, 2013
eeeeh……..thousands of units per day, and 5 man hours each. It means at least 10000 man hours each working day. I assume one reactor in each plant. Shall we believe that? But what is a plant, a reactor, a module? Three words for the same thing?
Jim
March 6, 2013
I hope that eventually the hotcat, when available to the public, will have two cartridges, so that when one is at the 6th month limit, the second one will kick in, and you can hot replace the first one.
Would be nice, anyway.
Bård Havre
March 7, 2013
Sound reasonable, at this early stage. Robotized manufacturing will bring the required time down to minutes, with 24/7 operation possible. The components are simple, and can be supplied by subcontractors, so the final assembly will be similar to for example a domestic AC unit, and so will the cost. This will be a 10$ per kilo product. Retail price is an entirely different matter.
Gregory Lee
March 8, 2013
It is rather interesting to note what Rossi said “thousands per day” .
Now. That could mean 1000 or 2000 or 5000 or 10,000 or 100,000.
And it seems to me that the work is concentrating on HOT-CAT more so than low temp e-cat. .
So I wanted to play with numbers game to see how it would do for North America ( US and Canada) about 100million households. Assumed caveat here is only the current factory/ies will be used for production.
Lets say you produce 10,000 per day for 250 working days/year. Wow ! of course. That would be a stellar quantity for first line production.
250 days x 10,000 =2,500,000 /year. So it will take 40 years for it to cover 00 million households. Way too long .
So there will have to be 40 tiems capacity to make changs over within 1 year. That ain’t gonna happen either what with politics and backwater regulations and possible law suits flying alll over the place including changes within governances of all towns and villages and states/provinces and the countries as a whole. So I’m gonna put in say 10 or may be more years to unwrangle all these miserable human debacles . And that is assuming if we get to have product numero uno rolling out of assembly line today …. Now imagine what it will take if Rossi can’t get his patents for another 2, 3, 5… years down the road huh?
What it looks like is that I will be dead before I will have one of those under my basement .
praos
March 10, 2013
1000 per day is about 3 GWt or 1 GWe p.a. It’s already 10% of total windmills installation if their load factor is taken into account. Not bad, if true.