I enjoyed your post, but paraphrasing Andrea Rossi, the solution will be an integrated one. The battery (or capacitor) should be large enough to handle peak loads and transients. The eCat may not be running all the time (e.g., during high ambient temperatures, during idle times or low speed times when the eCat would produce too much excess power, during parked times inside an enclosed volume — garage). True, the amount of battery space can be reduced. What I was previously attempting to show is that even an undersized eCat (22kW) could extend the range of an electric car so that the limiting factor would be the human need to stop and get out of the car.
Marco, Chuck Davis, all Readers:
I am delighted to read the comments of our Readers that discuss between themselves: this blog is not just where I answer to questions, I’d like to read more comments of Readers that ask each other help, information, opinions…mind, this blog is also a tool of yours.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Irina and Vitaly Uzikov:
Thank you for your attention for pour work, coming from high scientific echelons of Russia. We are striving to bring the Ecat SK Leonardo that makes directly electric energy to the world market, but now we are still at an R&D stage.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Karl Poehlmann:
Yes, but high temperature is inside the system, not outside, and it is made to produce work, not to be dissipated somewhere.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
@Chuck Davis
A mix of batteries and supercapacitors should be necessary.
A lithium battery can’t be recharged too fast, so you can’t sustain the 400+KW of power of regenerative braking with a little 5-10kwh battery: in a such powerful braking, most of the energy would be wasted and MUST be wasted, otherwise the battery could explode.
You can’t put a too big ECat with a small battery for the same reason: too much waste heat and battery overheating, you will have to underutilize the ECat for most of the time, because the battery should be recharged not too fast.
A small lithium battery can’t provide enough peak power to accelerate, for the same reason: if you are at 50-60mph, you are providing already about 20KW and to accelerate you need an higher power for some time.
Also abrupt change in current flow are bad for the life expectancy of the battery.
A mix of a small battery and a small supercapacitor should be used: the supercapacitor provide the peak power for acceleration and for fully recover of regenerative braking acting as a buffer and slowly charging or discharging the small battery.
We are delighted with your new project “Ecat SK-Leonardo” and are confident in the success of your professional team. We really hope for a quick entry of this fantastic product to the market of energy sources.
With respect and admiration, Irina and Vitaly Uzikov
@Chuck Davis
Better are supercapacitors. They are less polluting to produce and recycle, are less inflammable and support way more recharge cycles and istantaneous power. The only disadvantage is the capacity, but if you do not want a car that should sustain indefinitely 100 or more mph, but only legal speeds, a 20-30Kw Ecat and a few KWh supercapacitor should suffice… Just for sprint and for peak power in regenerative braking: in an emergency braking, the power required to absorb by the battery is often too high and the efficiency in energy recovery is low. With supercapacitors this is not a problem.
Electric regards,
Marco.
@Steven N. Karels,
The large number of batteries in current EV design is to extend the range. With an Ecat on board most of those batteries can be tossed since the Ecat will be constantly recharging the remaining batteries, which would result in a major reduction of weight and price.
Warm Regards,
Chuck Davis
On electric cars – the newer cars have all electric ranges of up to about 200+ miles. If you could have a 22 kW output eCat and convert nearly all of the energy into electricity, that would be sufficient to run highway speeds, with rest stops for the driver and passengers, across the country. For example, my 2015 Chevy Volt has an 11kW battery and I get about 30 miles of range. So if I drove at 60 mph, a 22kW electric generator should keep up with the demand. My point being with the newer, longer range cars, a continually operating eCat, with high enough conversion efficiency, would extend the electric range significantly. And any thermal output would be minimized. If you can make the eCat-SK Leonardo work, this is a natural market. Who would not want a car that you only had to refuel once or twice per year and no carbon emissions?
Dear Dr Rossi
Maybe this article will interest you.
Little-understood crystals called “strange metals” appear to dissipate energy at a maximum rate allowed by the laws of quantum mechanics. The effort to understand this fundamental speed limit and what electrons are doing inside the materials has turned up surprising connections to black holes, gravity and quantum information theory. https://www.quantamagazine.org/universal-quantum-phenomenon-found-in-superconductors-20181119/
I like your suggestion of
“ECat SK – Leonardo “
It honours a great man
and the Country of your birth.
I have a feeling Sergio Focardi
would like it also.
Dear Andrea,
Congratulations with your progress on the electric Ecat. If this Ecat is really able to power itself, the the name Ecat SK Leonardo is truly well chosen. Leonardo da Vinci, the formidable genius, who excelled in so many disciplines, which seems also the the case for the Ecat SK Leonardo.
I am not sure if what you published today, also means that you now have strong evidence that the Ecat SK Leonardo indeed works. If so, how many days has it been in operation without taking power from any other source?
Kind regards, Gerard
Dear Readers:
Today, May 2 2019, is the 500th year after the passing of Leonardo da Vinci. We celebrated it here with a substantial step forward toward the electric Ecat that generates also the electric power to fuel itself. What about the name “Ecat SK-Leonardo” ?
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Frank Acland:
I prefer not to give this information, for the time being. In due tome we will publish the references. We are not expanding fast in this period, because we want to resolve the problems emerging now and again in the first wave.
Thank you for the attention to our work,
Warm Regards,
A.R.
1 – Can you publish the number of E-Cat in operation in your laboratory serving your R & D?
2 – There must be a large amount of thermal energy released by these machines. Is this energy used or released into the atmosphere?
Good success for E-Cat R & D
cordially
Raffaele
Due to dry skin, I revisited the environmental issues the magic E-Cat may be able to resolve. Would it be possible for a steam primary loop to release on control enough vapor to bring central air to a comfortable level?
With much respect,
Brokeeper
Rita:
The Casimir force is weak, but, as explained in my paper, in par. 1, it is not impossible that in certain conditions the Casimir force can balance the Coulombian force. It is not my first choice, but cannot be ignored.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Dear dr Andrea Rossi,
If you succeed in making a 100% ssm Ecat SK you will make a revolution also in the car market. This will have consequences. Are you afraid of it?
Giovanni2:
Sincerely, I am not listening the rock and troll music played by the house organ forums and surely we will not act to react to it. This said, obviously what you ask for sooner or later will be allowed.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Nils Fryklund:
1- yes
2- the answer to this question is complex and invests confidential issues
3- I must go on with the quest for directly generated electricity. We are working on both the issues. The heat is done, the electricity not yet. The consequences of electricity would give COP infinite with enormous consequences ( from cars, to industries, houses, you name it, you get it ). I am not sleeping working on this. Also because now I have a clear view about the theoretical bases.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
in mid-March, you shared that between May and June 2019, testing of your newly invented apparatus for direct electricity production from the ECat SK would allow you to have a stronger opinion on the potential for success.
Do you still have this same view? Are the initial results still pointing in this direction?
Dear Andrea!
1. Do you still use parts or fuel from the old 1MW-plants?
2. Is the fuel-powder-quantity proportional to the effect on the
E-cats?
3. Is the E-catSK working so well so you have time to make bi-product,
for exemple electricity? It is fantastic enough with heat-energy.
Best regards
Nils Fryklund
Chuck Davis,
I enjoyed your post, but paraphrasing Andrea Rossi, the solution will be an integrated one. The battery (or capacitor) should be large enough to handle peak loads and transients. The eCat may not be running all the time (e.g., during high ambient temperatures, during idle times or low speed times when the eCat would produce too much excess power, during parked times inside an enclosed volume — garage). True, the amount of battery space can be reduced. What I was previously attempting to show is that even an undersized eCat (22kW) could extend the range of an electric car so that the limiting factor would be the human need to stop and get out of the car.
@Marco,
Grabat batteries, now in production, recharge 33 times faster than Li batteries,
Warm Regards,
Chuck Davis
Dear Readers:
Please go to
http://www.rossilivecat.com
to find comments published in other posts of this blog,
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Marco, Chuck Davis, all Readers:
I am delighted to read the comments of our Readers that discuss between themselves: this blog is not just where I answer to questions, I’d like to read more comments of Readers that ask each other help, information, opinions…mind, this blog is also a tool of yours.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Irina and Vitaly Uzikov:
Thank you for your attention for pour work, coming from high scientific echelons of Russia. We are striving to bring the Ecat SK Leonardo that makes directly electric energy to the world market, but now we are still at an R&D stage.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Karl Poehlmann:
Yes, but high temperature is inside the system, not outside, and it is made to produce work, not to be dissipated somewhere.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
@Chuck Davis
A mix of batteries and supercapacitors should be necessary.
A lithium battery can’t be recharged too fast, so you can’t sustain the 400+KW of power of regenerative braking with a little 5-10kwh battery: in a such powerful braking, most of the energy would be wasted and MUST be wasted, otherwise the battery could explode.
You can’t put a too big ECat with a small battery for the same reason: too much waste heat and battery overheating, you will have to underutilize the ECat for most of the time, because the battery should be recharged not too fast.
A small lithium battery can’t provide enough peak power to accelerate, for the same reason: if you are at 50-60mph, you are providing already about 20KW and to accelerate you need an higher power for some time.
Also abrupt change in current flow are bad for the life expectancy of the battery.
A mix of a small battery and a small supercapacitor should be used: the supercapacitor provide the peak power for acceleration and for fully recover of regenerative braking acting as a buffer and slowly charging or discharging the small battery.
Regards, Marco.
Did you consider the risks connected with high temperature for health ?
Best Regards
K.P.
Dear Andrea!
We are delighted with your new project “Ecat SK-Leonardo” and are confident in the success of your professional team. We really hope for a quick entry of this fantastic product to the market of energy sources.
With respect and admiration, Irina and Vitaly Uzikov
@Marco:
At 10k$/kWh supercapacitors, I don’t think so,
Warm Regards,
Chuck Davis
Donald:
Yes.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Dear Readers:
Please go to
http://www.rossilivecat.com
to read comments published today in other posts of this blog,
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Sonny Parizek:
Thank you for your attention to our work,
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Dr Rossi:
Very interesting http://www.ecatskdemo.com
I read the e-book “Ecat-the new fire” of Vessela Nikolova: do you confirm what is written in this book?
@Chuck Davis
Better are supercapacitors. They are less polluting to produce and recycle, are less inflammable and support way more recharge cycles and istantaneous power. The only disadvantage is the capacity, but if you do not want a car that should sustain indefinitely 100 or more mph, but only legal speeds, a 20-30Kw Ecat and a few KWh supercapacitor should suffice… Just for sprint and for peak power in regenerative braking: in an emergency braking, the power required to absorb by the battery is often too high and the efficiency in energy recovery is low. With supercapacitors this is not a problem.
Electric regards,
Marco.
@Steven N. Karels,
The large number of batteries in current EV design is to extend the range. With an Ecat on board most of those batteries can be tossed since the Ecat will be constantly recharging the remaining batteries, which would result in a major reduction of weight and price.
Warm Regards,
Chuck Davis
Sam:
Thank you for the link!
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Hello DR Rossi
This is a link to an interesting
Video about Leonardo Da Vinci .
https://youtu.be/n-NhwRYW3M4
Regards
Sam
Dear Readers:
Please go to http://www.rossilivecat.com to find comments published today in other posts of this blog,
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Steven N. Karels:
Right.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Anonymous:
If we succeed, yes.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Dear Andrea Rossi,
On electric cars – the newer cars have all electric ranges of up to about 200+ miles. If you could have a 22 kW output eCat and convert nearly all of the energy into electricity, that would be sufficient to run highway speeds, with rest stops for the driver and passengers, across the country. For example, my 2015 Chevy Volt has an 11kW battery and I get about 30 miles of range. So if I drove at 60 mph, a 22kW electric generator should keep up with the demand. My point being with the newer, longer range cars, a continually operating eCat, with high enough conversion efficiency, would extend the electric range significantly. And any thermal output would be minimized. If you can make the eCat-SK Leonardo work, this is a natural market. Who would not want a car that you only had to refuel once or twice per year and no carbon emissions?
Donald G. Chandler:
Thank you for the information and the interesting link.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Dear Dr Rossi
Maybe this article will interest you.
Little-understood crystals called “strange metals” appear to dissipate energy at a maximum rate allowed by the laws of quantum mechanics. The effort to understand this fundamental speed limit and what electrons are doing inside the materials has turned up surprising connections to black holes, gravity and quantum information theory.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/universal-quantum-phenomenon-found-in-superconductors-20181119/
Sam:
Thank you for the suggestion,
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Hello DR Rossi
I like your suggestion of
“ECat SK – Leonardo “
It honours a great man
and the Country of your birth.
I have a feeling Sergio Focardi
would like it also.
Regards
Sam
Rick57:
Thank you for the suggestion.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Gerard McEk:
Premature to answer, we still are in an R&D phase.
But I am optimist.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Dear Andrea,
Congratulations with your progress on the electric Ecat. If this Ecat is really able to power itself, the the name Ecat SK Leonardo is truly well chosen. Leonardo da Vinci, the formidable genius, who excelled in so many disciplines, which seems also the the case for the Ecat SK Leonardo.
I am not sure if what you published today, also means that you now have strong evidence that the Ecat SK Leonardo indeed works. If so, how many days has it been in operation without taking power from any other source?
Kind regards, Gerard
Dear Andrea,
Leonardo seems to me appropriate because it is also the name of your Company.
If you are looking for an acronym, why not Ecat-LH where LH stays for Lion Heart, the origin of Leonardo name.
Can you confirm the goal of an Ecat with no external power supply has been achieved ?
Wishes of Heart,
Riccardo
Dear Readers:
Today, May 2 2019, is the 500th year after the passing of Leonardo da Vinci. We celebrated it here with a substantial step forward toward the electric Ecat that generates also the electric power to fuel itself. What about the name “Ecat SK-Leonardo” ?
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Frank Acland:
I prefer not to give this information, for the time being. In due tome we will publish the references. We are not expanding fast in this period, because we want to resolve the problems emerging now and again in the first wave.
Thank you for the attention to our work,
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Dear Andrea,
Can you inform us how many customers Currently have E-cats operating at their sites?
Many thanks,
Frank Acland
Brokeeper:
The heat made by the E-Cat can be used in general for all the duties on course for any other heat source.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Raffaele Bongo:
1- enough
2- no
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Hello A. Rossi
1 – Can you publish the number of E-Cat in operation in your laboratory serving your R & D?
2 – There must be a large amount of thermal energy released by these machines. Is this energy used or released into the atmosphere?
Good success for E-Cat R & D
cordially
Raffaele
Dear Andrea,
Due to dry skin, I revisited the environmental issues the magic E-Cat may be able to resolve. Would it be possible for a steam primary loop to release on control enough vapor to bring central air to a comfortable level?
With much respect,
Brokeeper
Devon:
The invention of the PCs has made a revolution too. I go my way.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Dear Readers:
Please go to
http://www.rossilivecat.com
to find comments published today in other posts of this blog.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Rita:
The Casimir force is weak, but, as explained in my paper, in par. 1, it is not impossible that in certain conditions the Casimir force can balance the Coulombian force. It is not my first choice, but cannot be ignored.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Dr Rossi,
What is your position about the possibility that the Casimir force is a possible explication of the Rossi effect?
Dear dr Andrea Rossi,
If you succeed in making a 100% ssm Ecat SK you will make a revolution also in the car market. This will have consequences. Are you afraid of it?
Patrick Ellul:
Thank you very much !
There is also a splendid monography dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci in the National Geographic.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Dear Andrea,
An interesting piece by the BBC about Da Vinci.
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190501-leonardo-da-vincis-lost-masterpieces
Regards
Patrick
Giovanni2:
Sincerely, I am not listening the rock and troll music played by the house organ forums and surely we will not act to react to it. This said, obviously what you ask for sooner or later will be allowed.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Nils Fryklund:
1- yes
2- the answer to this question is complex and invests confidential issues
3- I must go on with the quest for directly generated electricity. We are working on both the issues. The heat is done, the electricity not yet. The consequences of electricity would give COP infinite with enormous consequences ( from cars, to industries, houses, you name it, you get it ). I am not sleeping working on this. Also because now I have a clear view about the theoretical bases.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Buck:
Yes, I confirm this.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Dear Andrea:
in mid-March, you shared that between May and June 2019, testing of your newly invented apparatus for direct electricity production from the ECat SK would allow you to have a stronger opinion on the potential for success.
Do you still have this same view? Are the initial results still pointing in this direction?
my best,
Buck
Dear Andrea!
1. Do you still use parts or fuel from the old 1MW-plants?
2. Is the fuel-powder-quantity proportional to the effect on the
E-cats?
3. Is the E-catSK working so well so you have time to make bi-product,
for exemple electricity? It is fantastic enough with heat-energy.
Best regards
Nils Fryklund