>2. Apart from the initial heat burst, the temperature was steady, as shown
in the laptop photos they took. So the flow must have been steady.

You have a terrible confusion in your head.
The “laptop photos” doesn’t exists at all for the february test (liquid water 
calorimetry)

From: Jed Rothwell 
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 3:45 PM
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com 
Subject: Re: [Vo]:I was impressed by Levi in the video interview

Susan Gipp <susan.g...@gmail.com> wrote:


  Here the "flow meter"
  
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0LCgn_05ZGY/TWGehaAfm-I/AAAAAAAAE5w/Ew3nHhdHUDQ/s1600/E-Cat110211.jpg

  It's a simple house utility water meter like this


Thanks. They said it was an ordinary utility meter. Why did you put the word 
"flow meter" in quotes? That's a meter. For the purposes of this test it as 
good as a $10,000 meter would be.


  They mounted above a camera connected to the laptop taking pictures at some 
interval.
  This meter has in the middle a kind of star. Its spinning speed shows the 
water flow. Visually you can only rougly extimate the flow rate.


A rough estimate would be fine, but like any other utility meter it shows the 
cumulative flow, and I am sure that is accurate. Water utility billing would be 
chaotic if meters did not work. To get the flow rate per second you read the 
total amount and divide by duration.


  It's not very unlikely that, if for any reason the water pressure temporarly 
dropped, they could think of an unexplanable power peak.

There were no unexplained power peaks, except for the first one. So your 
statement is hypothetical. It is also extremely unlikely for the following 
reasons:

1. Pressure does not vary with a municipal water supply, except when there is 
construction and they shut off the supply at the street. You can tell when this 
happens.

2. Apart from the initial heat burst, the temperature was steady, as shown in 
the laptop photos they took. So the flow must have been steady.

3. If the temperature had gone up, they would have checked the instantaneous 
flow rate. It isn't that difficult to read. They also would have watched the 
cumulative flow for a while. Anyway, they said the temperature did not 
fluctuate.

- Jed

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