>From Jiang's paper (courtesy Bob Higgins translation): "How could T1 and T2 temperatures differ by so much? This is because thermocouple T1 is in the atmosphere, and is easily equilibrated to room temperature. T2 is located in a sealed stainless steel vessel, and the gas inside the vessel is at a very low pressure, near vacuum, having better insulating properties like a thermos."
Jiang wrote this to explain the temperature difference during the phase labeled 'self-sustaining' in the first run, but I think it also explains the temperature difference during the phase labeled 'excess heat' when the power was on. T2 is hotter in the 'on' phase because it is located in a vessel where heat can't escape to the air by convection. Therefore, the reactor is not generating heat at this time so it would be incorrect to call this 'excess heat'. The 'self-sustaining' phase that follows represents the release of energy which was being stored while the power was on. When the power is on I would call this the charging phase. The large fluctuations in T2 during the charging phase indicate the storage process is volatile. (All this assumes T2 is reliable throughout the run.) Harry On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:08 PM, Bob Higgins <rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was interested enough in Dr. Jiang's latest paper that I went to the > trouble to do a proper translation from Chinese to English. Google > translate just wasn't good enough. If you read through the Google translate > version, you skip over things that Google didn't translate well enough - and > in fact, there were some gems hidden in there. > > For your reading pleasure ... on my Google Drive > > https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5Pc25a4cOM2bV9DLUp1MTkwU1U > > Bob Higgins >
