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Rossi: We Are Close To Present Our 1 MW Hot Cat Reactor – (But doesnt add up!) -Fail

“So the attachments, including Penon’s report, are missing again? And the calculations are still ambiguous/incorrect? This is getting a bit surreal, even by Rossi’s standards.”

On his official e-cat blog Journal of Nuclear Physics, Italian inventor Andrea Rossi made a very interesting revelation concerning his high temperature reactor. A frequent JONP poster Joseph Fine asked:

“Does the power rating of a module (1 kW, 5 kW, 10 kW) affect the time of startup or shutdown? If smaller or lower power modules heat up faster than larger ones (or vice versa), it might be possible to ramp up or ramp down a startup or shutdown by sequencing the startup or shutdown of several modules in order to avoid major power jumps.”

Rossi responded and surprisingly disclosed what seems to be very important information he may be sharing in the upcoming e-cat conference in Pordenone Italy on October 12.

“No, it does not affect. We are close to present our 1 MW Hot cat, which will have a tremendous elasticity. I think that at Pordenone we will get some fun.”

Rossi’s answer is absolutely unexpected because he hasn’t talked about a 1 megawatt high temperature reactor before. The latest information we received about the Hot Cat is it has now steam and pressure to generate electricity. When asked when he expects to start trials with turbines etc to make electricity, Rossi said it will be “as soon as possible, hopefully in 2013”.

In an interview conducted by the E-cat World, Aldo Proia (E-Cat Licensee for Italy) talked about the kind of potential customers who are showing interest in the Hot Cat. He said:

“The Hot Cat, which will provide an output up to 600°C at minimum, is very interesting for industries using high temperatures in their productions. The Hot Cat can also be used to produce electric power, so it is useful – potentially – for all big consumers of electricity. Thus, we have some companies interested in the thermal E-Cat for making an upgrade, later, to the Hot Cat.”

Proia also revealed that there are large Italian companies that are highly motivated to purchase a 1 MW plant to start a collaboration. If it is true that Rossi has developed a 1 MW Hot Cat, this is definitely big time. It looks like we are getting closer to an LENR world. The biggest challenge here is how to bring this emerging technology into the marketplace and make it more affordable to the companies to make major investments. As Proia puts it,

“But the biggest challenge in the short term, perhaps, is to have patience: a technological revolution requires time.”

http://ecatreport.com/e-cat/rossi-we-are-close-to-present-our-1-mw-hot-cat

BUT….

[UPDATE] Andrea Rossi Provides Corrected Pordenone Hot Cat Report

October 12, 2012

took this from the comments

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Peter_Roe on October 13, 2012 at 8:05 am

So the attachments, including Penon’s report, are missing again? And the calculations are still ambiguous/incorrect? This is getting a bit surreal, even by Rossi’s standards.

This should have been a great moment for Rossi, but somehow he is managing to “snatch defeat from the jaws of victory”, at least from the POV of onlookers. As others have said, maths does not seem to be his forte, and he needs to learn to delegate – now! If we are not going to get to see Penon’s report (assuming it is a new one) for some reason (Admin?), I suppose we have to wait for publication of the 3rd party verification before we can celebrate a major step forward.

If nothing else this saga is teaching me how to manage frustration with saintly detachment.

[…]

And there are some comments from Rossi on the thread too!

http://www.e-catworld.com/2012/10/update-andrea-rossi-provides-corrected-pordenone-hot-cat-report/

read revision report on link below..

October 13, 2012 - Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized