E-Cat Home Unit Is Planned Industrially, But What Are The Deadlines?
By now, there are more and more people somewhat growing weary of the ECat core secrecy and ambiguity surrounding some of the developments in the camp of Andrea Rossi. Luckily, every now and then there is a fascinating statement on his blog, where he answers the question of his readers and gives a clue as to what should be expected or what might be happening.
And then, there are also some interviews, where the inventor seems more long-winded than usual and more development data can be found. Of course, the world is still spread in groups of believers and skeptics that look in astonishment and disbelief, which basically stands for “I wish I could believe, because that would be awesome, but I don’t think I can.” And the secrecy does not help the matter much, really.
On the other hand, it is rather understandable that the E-Cat home device is surrounded with secrecy as it is, not currently protected by an international patent, which had been filed for but has never been granted yet.
Thus, we should be content with the info pieces we get and pray for more to come in the near future. One of such pieces surfaced earlier, where we were treated with the promise of autumn mass production of E-Cat home units and the following sales in winter. Later on, these dates were somewhat pushed further, perhaps, as Rossi was never very on these issues and without any particular deadline in mind (or at least on his lips).
On January 21, however, he made a statement, which ran thus:
“Within a couple of weeks we will have precise scheduling regarding the construction of the robotized factory.”
That in turn will help him, he claims, to give more precise terms as to when manufacturing and sales of E-Cat home modules should be expected.
Category: E-Cat, E-cat Home
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From what I can gather from the information available the E-Cat is not really a catalyst in the truest sense. Apparently, there is nickel powder in the catalyst plus an “unknown substance” to which is applied hydrogen gas. When this occurs, the Ni and H mixture (plus the unknown substance) change at the atomic level and the resulting “waste” from this interchange is: 1.) energy in the form of heat, a multifold amount than the original input and 2.) copper. I have not read or heard of any other outcome.
So, what I understand from this is that there needs to be a constant supply of nickel, which would result in speculators buying up all available nickel and a rush to open new nickel mines. Oh, and a true catalytic action would result in there being no changes at all in the catalytic material. The plus side would be that copper prices would take a nose-dive, which would be beneficial to the electronics industry.
Now my question: what does the world’s supply of nickel look like and using the E-Cat (which should be named E-Con, or Energy Convertor, because it “converts” and does not “catalyze”) world-wide when will the supply of nickel be depleted? And, what minerals and/or chemicals make up the mystery ingredient and does this change too or is it the true catalyst?
Eric Morgan
Los Angeles
On Earth, nickel occurs most often in combination with sulfur and iron in pentlandite, with sulfur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral nickeline, and with arsenic and sulfur in nickel galena.
30% of the world’s supply of Nickel comes from a region in Ontario, Canada. Russia contains about 40% of the world’s known resources at the Norilsk deposit in Siberia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel#Occurrence
The mystery mixup is still unknown, but Andrea Rossi recently said that he’s likely to reveal the theory behind the e-cat process in autumn.
From Defkalion numbers given on their forum,
http://www.lenrforum.eu/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=27
coherent with Rossi (when he does not make a unit mistake) only few % of nickel yearly production will cover the global planet energy consumption, assuming it is done with Hyperion-B kind of generator coupled with turbo-alternator (33% efficient).
similarity investment will be about 6mont of GDP to build the reactor to change all reactors.
amortized cost of electricity will be about 1/10 of cheap old nuclear electricity (<10eur/MWh electric)
with "LENR Car" (iCar) project, it seems rational to make a car that you refill every 5 years.
It seems also rational from SUGAR NASA-Boeing study to make LENR plane…
so LENR can really replace all world energy… in 6month of work, consuming 4% of world nickel yearly production.