RE: ECCO - An instant on/off ultrasonically fluidised dusty plasma New Fire reactor

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ECCO - An instant on/off ultrasonically fluidised dusty plasma New Fire reactor

in ecco •  8 years ago 

Bob here, I have met Dr. Fran Tanzella several times and co-presented with him at Stanford in February. I agree he is an expert.

We are preparing an open document for comment about our validation approach. Anyone can comment and add their expertise, moreover, we will be publishing the testing as we go-so people will have an opportunity to apply their skill on the fly to ensure acceptable results.

The device already does on/off control. essentially with no (non-spark) discharge and no fluidisation ultrasonics (which undoubtedly also play particle resonant roles as well) the excess stops. The five minute lag is how long it takes to heat the 28ºC water to 101ºC. When turned off, there is some thermal time constant in the insulated mixed material cores - but essentially it is on/off.

We will look to convert to 48V DC measure the input power there and invert back to AC for supply to the reactor. As for the steam measurement there are a number of approaches here are selection being considered.

  1. Sparging into water
  2. Increasing water supply flow rate so never goes to steam
  3. Using a steam separator
  4. Using a flow rate meter after ensuring steam quality
    etc.

Suhas has a swap in module that is effectively a resistive heater. Given that the 8 cores draw little more than 1kW - using the resistive heater and putting 3kW in and seeing if there was any steam output would at least be a reasonable qualitative metric.

Suhas, has detailed the processing used to achieve the fuel. He did it this way because off the shelf powders were only available to him in the 80-100um range and he had a lot of ultrasonic horns and was not afraid to use them. We have identified supply of 20um powder for at least the Ni and this may reduce processing time significantly to get to the target 1-3um. It may be necessary to do some smashing and then pyrolysis to ensure clean and suitable surface morphology. Additionally the cavitation in the 19.4kHz 4.5kW particle smasher should create EVOs and these may store in the fuel components - so this processing may be more important than at first it seams. I think the above document and associated videos is already the most detailed publicly available description of a claimed high COP device in the history of LENR.

Suhas has provided samples of the foil and part processed Ti and a sample fuel mix and I am arranging with truly independent, never in the field of LENR, testers to get a good look at it.

We are trying to raise enough money for him to make a full off-site replica and he is to quote on that this evening. This will serve as a verification and a backup should people that pop up to 'help' not in fact be... how can we put it it... very helpful.

If the verification is satisfactory, we have at least one potential philanthropist lined up to fund 100 units and spread them preferentially to organisations that will conduct experiments under the LOS method. There can be many experts at this stage that can apply their expertise. It is not necessary to have an 8 core device, so this test device may just be a single core reactor and therefore far more portable.

Suhas never considered theory, he looked at what people were saying that claimed the best results and gave them credence, he followed open discussion on LENR and over a 2 year 6 day a week period heuristically iterated to ECCO. This is the power of ontological pursuit. The fact that his choices make logical sense is a real bonus. He solved the problems of Egely with ultrasonics, something we had discussed openly years ago but had no expertise to deliver - Suhas is clearly a master of ultrasound.

People with the wherewithall can immediately take the information above and start attempting replication - nothing of any real consequence is left out other than perhaps more detail on the coupling mechanism for the ultrasonics to the ceramic reactor cores - something that I will press for more detail on. There really is no reason to wait for even mid-level funded operations that have a reasonable level of competence.

Having said all that, even when verified and accepted - Dr. Suhas is clearly the expert that you would want to hire to design a manufacturing process in any country that would want to make these en-masse, he has decades of experience in designing for manufacture and large scale processing throughput.

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You have done a thorough job of planning your approach and probably gotten very little sleep in the process.
A couple of suggestions:

  1. Have multiple supply sources for the initial powders. The purity and other characteristics of the powders once they are reduced to the 1-3 micron range become critical. With multiple suppliers, if a failure occurs, you will not be "dead in your tracks" and can readily switch out the base materials.

  2. Determine and document the QC points that Dr. Suhas uses at each stage to very that the intermediate processes are complete and successful before moving on to the next step (these are the details inventors often leave out of their patents).

  3. Ask Dr. Suhas about the system and component failures have has had during the past 3 1/2 years (as well as recently) and how he overcame/protected his system from failing. This is important to help you avoid "surprises" along the way and insure your safety.
    And keep your "Cold Fusion"/LENR friends close, but keep you enemies closer. The "Cold Fusion"/LENR detractors have arguments to offer that need to be addressed right or wrong.

Last, I would encourage multiple measurement techniques to avoid measurement equipment calibration/setup issues and unforeseen problems.

This is a very exciting moment for the the future of the world. :)

He produces all his own powders and knows and can share the whole process.