Hyperion release dates outlined. I’ve already...

Hyperion release dates outlined.

I’ve already covered the Hyperion Reactor here, which claims to be able to produce relatively clean and cheap energy using cold fusion - along with some of the claims of fraud.

Creator Andrea Rossi hit back at skeptics, saying they will be able to test it for themselves after worldwide release, and now an interview with Defkalion staff has detailed their plans for that release.

Defkalion is planning “very soon” to announce the first 18 licensees [for the Hyperion reactor] that are authorized to manufacture and distribute the technology in their respective countries, with an exclusive contract for those regions. Each license costs 40.5 million Euros. Many of those licensees are well under way in procuring the necessary permitting and other requirements for launching a production plant. Each factory is designed to be able to manufacture 300,000 units per year. The factory is pretty much like a franchise, where Defkalion will provide a blueprint for not just the technology but also the factory layout and operation.

The Hyperion contains nine reaction vessels, each producing 5 kW of heat. Whether you just want 5 kW or 45 kW, or any amount in between, you will purchase the same unit. If a person only wants 5 kW, then the reaction vessels will rotate one after another, until all reactants are used up. So the duration could be as much as 4.5 years (each vessel reactants are designed to last 6 months). But that doesn’t take into consideration the inevitable loss of hydrogen. They agreed with me that this is yet an unknown — how long the vessel will actually remain charged and ready to go.

They have not yet firmed up a price for the Hyperion. But once they do, the licensees will be required to stay close to the same price, especially in neighboring markets, like in Europe.

Understandably if this machine is real, Rossi is trying to keep a very close lid on how it works to get a good head start on competitors who would try to reverse engineer the technology. On the other side of the fence, the skeptics are saying that it’s likely a fake, as even though he allows independent tests of the machine, he won’t allow them to see the inner workings and processes behind it.

pesn.com