Andrea Rossi's E-Cat Devours Lockheed's Hypothetical Compact Fusion
Reactor
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works Division has announced their
plans to build a compact nuclear fusion based reactor prototype within
five years. The LENR or Cold Fusion E-Cat – which actually exists today
as a commercial product – offers more benefits with none of the
drawbacks. Did the positive findings of the Lugano report force
Lockheed's hand?
STERLING ALLAN'S COMMENT: I agree that the E-Cat holds
proven promise for resolving the world's energy needs. However,
we need to make the point that there are several other exotic
free energy technologies also getting close to emerging, which
will also provide clean, affordable, practical energy -- and
some of them may have advantages over the E-Cat for certain
applications. The E-Cat isn't the only promising technology in
view. I list it as number 5 in that ranking because it isn't as
close as those ahead of it in the list. See
http://Top5Energy. |
The Hot-Cat test setup, glowing,
as it produces heat equivalent in the kilowatt range at around
1400ºC -- 3.5 times more than the input required to run it.
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Allegedly, the first commercial
Lockheed Martin reactors capable of producing 100 MW would be
small enough to fit on the back of a 16-wheeler, and could be
ready for use in a decade, after producing their first prototype
in five years from now. |
By Hank
Mills
Pure Energy Systems News
Due to the existence of the
E-Cat or Energy Catalyzer, there is no reason – whatsoever – for
traditional hot fusion projects to be proposed or continue. No
complicated, expensive “hot fusion” technology can compete. Andrea
Rossi's technology offers a way of producing vast amounts of power while
using no radioactive materials, producing no nuclear waste, and emitting
no radiation into the environment. In addition, E-Cat reactors can be
made from nearly all off the shelf components; once mass produced, they
will be dirt cheap. So the announcement by Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works
division of their theoretical plans for a
Compact Fusion Reactor or, more formally, the “High Beta Fusion
Reactor” seems to have been little more than a move of desperation.
The fancy graphics produced by Lockheed to promote their currently
non-existent claim the technology will “restart the atomic age.” In
reality, the technology to eliminate the use of fossil fuels and
eliminate the use of dangerous conventional fission reactors already
exists in the form of the E-Cat. For a number of years, experiments with
real world E-Cat reactors (which are small enough to fit on a desktop)
have proven they are capable of producing several times more power out
than they consume. Certain tests of the E-Cat have demonstrated the
ability of the technology to completely self sustain – producing a
constant output of power without any input except for the small amount
needed at start up. Moreover, the Energy Catalyzer is capable of
producing extremely high temperatures in a stable manner (over 1,400
degrees Celsius) beyond what is required for electrical generation with
standard turbines.
No dream, fantasy, or pipe dream: the E-Cat is real and works today. A
recently released
report describing a thirty-two day test of a high temperature E-Cat
in Lugano, Switzerland has confirmed both massive excess power
generation and isotopic ratio shifts in the fuel that provide hard proof
of nuclear reactions.
As this article is being written, Industrial Heat – the company that
acquired the E-Cat technology from Andrea Rossi – is continually testing
over a hundred reactors that compose a one megawatt plant. This plant is
located in the factory of an undisclosed customer. After at least a year
of testing has been completed, the customer will share the performance
of the plant with the world and allow visits. The E-Cat is in process of
going commercial.
The Compact Fusion Reactor of Lockheed Martin, however, does not exist
in the real world. If a government or business had a billion dollars in
the bank and a plan to convert over to fusion energy, they could not
purchase a CFR. Not a single reactor, even a prototype, has been
constructed. Also, after a prototype is constructed, they claim to need
another five years to develop a commercial product. This means, at best,
commercial CFR's will not be available for a decade. This is of course
if their technology actually works, and they do not run into problems.
Most likely, there will be hurdles and issues appear they do not
expect.
Let's compare Lockheed's non-existent technology with the E-Cat.
- Once the results of the first year of operation of Industrial
Heat's one megawatt plant are released, commercialization can
proceed rapidly. At best, Lockheed will need ten years to reach the
same point. Before the first CFR prototype is built, it will be
running five years or more behind the E-Cat. Also, embarrassingly,
the first prototype of the CFR will only be designed to operate for
ten seconds. It is only going to be a proof that the theory works.
E-Cat reactors have already been operated for many months. In the
recent Lugano test, the reactors were run for thirty two days
non-stop.
- Even if Lockheed is capable of producing a fully functional
reactor in ten years, they will be using at least one radioactive
material (tritium), producing radiation inside the reactor
(including dangerous neutrons), and producing some nuclear waste.
The E-Cat will be using no radioactive elements and will not
generate any radiation or nuclear waste.
- The Lockheed CFR will be a far more complicated product than the
E-Cat. Unlike the CFR, an E-Cat reactor will not require huge
electromagnets and will be simple to mass produce. The components of
the actual E-Cat reactor are common: alumina tube, resistors, and
fuel powder comprised of nickel, lithium, iron with hydrogen.
- The Lockheed CFR is one massive reactor. The first E-Cat plant
is modular – composed of over a hundred smaller reactors. If one
E-Cat reactor fails, the faulty reactor can be extracted and a new
one inserted. In the CFR, if one part fails the whole device will
become disabled.
- The Lockheed CFR will be far more expensive than the E-Cat. In
addition to the fact that the components and fuels of the E-Cat will
be much cheaper, due to the lack of radiation and nuclear waste the
technology will be capable of being used almost anywhere.
The advantages of the E-Cat over the Compact Fusion Reactor are
clear. If Lockheed and other companies truly desired to end the energy
crisis and bring almost free, clean energy to the world, they would have
been building and testing cold fusion or LENR devices for decades. Some
people claim the reason they have not is ignorance in that they simply
do not realize the E-Cat is a real, working technology. This may be a
small factor why some scientists have avoided LENR research, but I think
there is another reason -- an explanation that should make all citizens
who believe in freedom and liberty fume with indignation.
Conventional hot fusion technology is controllable by the powers that
be; cold fusion is not.
All conventional hot fusion reactors – like the CFR – are complicated
and expensive. A small team of engineers in a third world country would
probably not have the skills, access to materials, or funding to build
one. Although a CFR would probably be much cheaper to build than
previous models of fusion reactors, it will cost hundreds of millions of
dollars to build the first prototype. The E-Cat reactors that are
already being used to produce power in the factory of a customer
probably cost a few hundred dollars to build. Also, they would use
mostly common components. If they had the ability to produce the fuel,
the same team of scientists and engineers would be able to build an
E-Cat with little effort.
The E-Cat represents a simple, cheap technology that could be easily
replicated across the globe by just about any company or academic
institution with a desktop and a few thousand dollars of funding. This
represents a disruptive, uncontrollable technology. If proliferated
widely, the E-Cat could provide unlimited, cheap energy to every single
country -- and town, and even house -- on the planet -- via a
distributed, not centralized paradigm. This means that nations
considered “hostile” to the United States such as Iran, Syria, and North
Korea could have their energy costs reduced down to almost nothing. When
it comes to access to energy, all the nations of the globe would be
equal. Access to energy can currently be used to put sanctions on
certain nations and groups that powers that be want to suppress. In a
world where the E-Cat provides almost free power to everyone, the powers
that be will find it more challenging to put a stranglehold on those
they want to control.
The entities who control this planet do not want power taken away from
them. Because of this, it is far better for them to promote “hot fusion”
than cold fusion. They can shout about the benefits of hot fusion while
knowing that it will not actually benefit anyone for decades or maybe
even longer. In the mean time, they will retain their power over the
world: they can push for carbon taxes, stronger environmental
regulations, and global government.
If they pushed for LENR or cold fusion research, everyone would
instantly realize that excessive, economy killing environmental
regulations are unneeded. By simply switching over traditional coal
burning fire plants to nickel-lithium-hydrogen, the emission of carbon,
heavy metals, and particulate matter into the atmosphere can stop. Their
long term plans to control the world by enforcing draconian
environmental laws will be destroyed. The E-Cat far surpasses their own
environmental benchmarks, which they have been using to bottleneck power
and drive up prices.
The E-Cat can eventually be used to produce power to operate every
vehicle, home, and appliance. All conventional (including existing
"renewable") forms of energy will fade away. This will give ordinary
people an enormous amount of freedom. No longer will people struggle to
pay for gasoline or pay their electric bills. If someone wants to live
out an RV all year long and travel ten times across the United States,
they will be able to do so for minimal energy cost. They will be able to
drive thousands of miles without needing to use any gasoline and will
not need to “plug in” anywhere when they stop. With this freedom all
sorts of new communities will develop. Most importantly, they will be
less dependent on government and have more freedom than ever before.
Of course part of the reason for the recent push for hot fusion is
probably for an even simpler reason: people want to protect their
careers. There are countless scientists and engineers who have worked
for decades exclusively on hot fusion research. If the funding for hot
fusion research dried up, they would be out of work and prestige. I
should stress that even though the introduction of the E-Cat technology
to the world would eliminate many hot fusion related jobs, there would
be countless new opportunities in the cold fusion field.
If used appropriately, the E-Cat technology could bring more wealth and
freedom to every single human being on the face of the planet. It could
bring energy costs down dramatically, reduce pollution, and eliminate
any fictitious need for severe environmental regulations. The CFR,
however, is not a technology that currently exists: it has never been
built and has never been tested.
Everyone who is interested in a real source of clean and cheap power for
our civilization should spread the word about the E-Cat and the Lugano
test. No one should allow themselves to be distracted by the CFR.
I hope the folks at Skunk Works wake up and join the winning side.
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For a more exhaustive listing, see
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News:Cold_Fusion
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A Late Night Speculative Raving From Hank Mills - (PESN;
October 24, 2014)
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Andrea Rossi's E-Cat Devours Lockheed's Hypothetical Compact Fusion
Reactor - (PESN; October 22, 2014)
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The Inconel Mouse of Andrea Rossi's E-Cat - (PESN;
October 14, 2014)
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Hell Freezes Over: Brian Ahern's Doubts on E-Cat Test Resolved
- (PESN; October 13, 2014)
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Leaked Second Paper With High Magnification of Rossi's Nickel
Particles Brings Replication Closer - (PESN; October
12, 2014)
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Sterling Allan on Coast to Coast AM about E-Cat breakthrough
- (PESN; October 12, 2014)
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Apocalypse Revealed – The Four Horsemen of Andrea Rossi's
E-CatLithium Iron Nickel Hydrogen - (PESN; October
10, 2014)
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News:E-Cat Fuel Analysis and Validation Paper Posted October 8, 2014
- (PESWiki; October 9, 2014)
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LENR-to-Market Digest -- August 22, 2014 - Safety
Certification Obtained for Low and High Temperature E-Cats (PESN)
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LENR-to-Market Digest -- April 9, 2014 - Rumblings about
pending E-Cat test results 'remarkable' (PESN)
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LENR-to-Market Weekly -- March 6, 2014 - Lattice Energy
transmutation (PESN)
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LENR-to-Market Digest -- February 20, 2014 - Rossi Hopes to
Retrofit Coal Power Plants With E-Cats (PESN)
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LENR-to-Market Digest -- February 5, 2014 - Nanors
availability announced at Cold Fusion 101 at MIT (PESN)
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LENR-to-Market Weekly -- January 30, 2014 - Industrial Heat
acquires E-Cat tech (PESN)
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LENR to Market Digest, January 22, 2014 - Blacklight Power
claims MW capability (PESN)
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LENR-to-Market Digest -- January 6, 2014 - Cherokee
identified as Rossi's partner (PESN)
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