It seems totally farfetched that a power plant can be contained within a shipping container, yet that is exactly the case with Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat.
After the tests he conducted in October of last year, the customer announced that he was pleased with the results. Rossi then tweaked some of the functions on the 1 MW power plant – all housed in a shipping container – and the unit went online last month. This is the first working model of LENR technology ever sold. And, there is another one in production. In fact, Rossi has orders for 12 more of the power plants.
Rossi is also busy preparing his 5kW units for home heating. These will be released next year, as soon as UL certification is complete. At this point, the home unit appears to be smaller than a dormitory refrigerator, and less expensive.
Apparently, the larger the device, the more heat can be produced. More heat means more steam, and more steam means more electricity. It seems kind of funny that, in spite of all the advances of science, steam power is still the golden fleece of electricity production. A much valued item.
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I am confused by the terminology being used here. Perhaps this is a problem of language or translation, but hopefully it can be cleared up.
1MW is meaningless in terms of energy. It’s entirely possible to produce a megawatt discharge from a relatively small bank of capacitors. The discharge may only last a microsecond or so, but the instantaneous power will be 1MW.
What would clarify matters is if some sort of quantitative measure of *energy* produced is give. In other words, how many mega/giga/terawatt-hours of energy are produced per gram of nickel? And for how many mega/giga/terawatt hours of input energy?
That picture of Rossi makes him look like that dude from the movie called Timecrimes.
Rossi has not comitted to making the home e-cat unit electricity-generating. I’m glad to hgear that he is adopting some deadline for sales.
A power plant generates electricity. The ecat does not produce electricity as far as I know. It should be called heat generator/hot water generator or similar, but not power plant. A gas boiler with 1 MW heat output is also of the size of a container or smaller. And remember that modern European gas boilers capable of delivering 20-25 kW of heat for space heating are wall hung, approx 700x450x300 mm (h x w x d). 5 kW is not enough for single family houses. At least 10 kW is necessary and also a hot water tank for the domestic hot water. Lower heat output from the generator means a larger storage tank if the hot water requirements shall be fulfilled. So, a normal European single family house needs 2-3 ecats and a storage tank.