Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote:
> As you know he is a miracle worker, except for one little detail ... > > He DECREASES the volume of a miracle reactor by a factor of 20 and the heat > only goes down by a factor of 3. And he is just noticing this! LOL. > That is incorrect. The larger reactor peaked at 130 kW for "a while" according to Levi. The size has been reduced by a factor of 20 and the heat by a factor of 33. Granted, the small reactor might be able to run at higher power. But you are missing the point. The most important factor by far is not the volume of material, but the volume of what Storms calls nuclear active material (NAE). Most of the powder is inert and contributes nothing. If 5% of a 50 ml sample is active, it will produce far more heat than 0.01% of a 1 L sample. Evidently, in the original Mills/Thermacore experiments with 40 lb of nickel producing 50 W, only a tiny fraction of the material contributed to the reaction and the rest might as well have been on the Moon for all the good it did. For all anyone knows, the batch of powder in the small device may be more potent than the big device. Or less potent. It may not have been pushed to the limits. - Jed
