Talking about Rossi device is like talking about first Watt's engine. I can immagine it could be just the first step, probably steam is just the first thing Rossi was able to use to have a working prototype.
2011/4/28 Axil Axil <[email protected]>: > You force a reactor design direction by regulation and buying decisions. If > the NRC finds the Cat-E to be unsuitable for home use because of its nuclear > nature, then the big utilities are in the driver’s seat. > > > > The use of steam makes centralized large scale power production economically > attractive because most of the cost of a reactor is located in the > turboelectric power generator. > > > > The heat plant is just a small part of the total cost. Big turbines cost > less per unit of power produced than small ones. > > > > The weakness in the Rossi reactor is that it uses steam to produce power. If > it used supercritical Co2 or direct heat to power energy conversion, then > that would be another story. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> >>> Like what has been done with fission, the electric utility industry will >>> force Rossi into building a 20 Gigawatt Cat-E for “economy of scale” >>> reasons. >> >> How will the electric utility industry "force him" to do anything?! He >> will be selling reactors and generators to factories and later >> to individuals. The power companies will have no say in the matter. We will >> not need them. They will go out of business, along with gas stations and >> OPEC. >> In Japan and the U.S. there is now a tremendous amount of privately owned >> generator capacity, mainly natural gas co-generators, for example in large >> buildings in Tokyo, and in factory complexes. The power companies cannot >> stop this. >> >> Actually, the power companies buy a significant share of their power from >> privately owned excess capacity. They act as brokers. >> In another forum, Vasudev Godbole has been saying Rossi should only sell >> huge, centralized generators: >> >> "Rossi device makes sense only if it is used to produce electricity. And >> as I argued earlier - centralized (> 50 or 150 MW Thermal) and not >> decentralized. Nuclear active devices must be highly localized and confined >> to a small well-supervised space and not scattered all over the landscape. >> Human beings are generally not reliable in decentralized matters, esp. >> nuclear. Some central control has proved to be necessary - better do it >> right from the beginning." >> >> I disagree. >> I discussed this issue in my book. >> - Jed > >
