Thomas,
Ridicule? Not sure what you refer to, but my apologies If you feel offended.
My point is the following:
The most probable scenario in my opinion is that Rossi has presented a business plan with goal of a commercialized product ready for market this year, If a final test was successful.
That means that the test plant must go thorugh as close to actual market conditions as possible, and that the test contract would reflect this.
" Would supplying 500kW average be a success?"
No it would not. 1 MW is the agreed dutypoint. But of course, If the customer have some partial shutdown, this would cause the Rossi plant to turn down delivery. But according to Rossi, the agreed power delivery is 1MW, at some minimum regularity. Normal Industry goal would be more than 90% regularity.
" Is the 1MW heating the plant output, in which case it will indeed be supplied, the only question is how much electricity is used to do this?"
The Rossi plant is installed at customer site, and the customer will of course want to know and measure how much el. Power the Rossi test plant is consuming, If not Rossi is bying power directly from the power Utility Company, which is less likely.
"You seem to be confusing fact and speculation."
My asessment is only based on what Rossi have stated on his blog. But of course he could be lying ( but somehow I think [lexicon]IH[/lexicon] would note it)
But both pressure,temperature,flowrates and el.power consumption are really easy measurements and it would be really unprofessional not to implement, especially in a case of claimed LENR ;-), and i final stage of commercialization. At that point all measurements must be a proven point, of course.
Also, you would need these measurements to control the plant, feed and turndown requirments.
Regularity a "Meaningless requirement"? Really? You would not Expect a contract contains a spesific requirement for regularity of the plant?
The point here was that Rossi would not state the contractual number on his blog. Is it 85%? 90%? Higher?
A contract is meaningless if just handled by Rossi.
"Why?"
Because Rossi have stated he gets payment for heat. The Customer must of have control of what he's paying for.
Since the contract is between Rossi and the customer? You just can't know.
And to repeat what Rossi said: "the customer will CONTINUE to buy heat if contract is fulfilled. But I Expect Rossi have an exit opportunity in the contract, If his Company is not satisfied with the economics...