Horace Heffner wrote:
As far as I know, this is the only eCat that Levi et al. tested in
December, which is when the event occurred. The flow rate was
typically ~300 ml/min I believe.
Are you sure about that flow rate being present in the heat after
death observation?
How else could it work? It would run out of water. Very little fits into
the cell. You cannot do flow calorimetry without a flow. It would be
like trying to do it without measuring the temperature.
It does correspond roughly to 12 kW boiling power. Of course, it
could also mean water was pushed out of the top of the device during
the run merely giving the appearance of 12 kW output when it is
assumed all water is boiled.
If that happened, the temperature would drop. You can see that easily.
For that matter, if you cannot tell when there is steam by the
temperature, the method would not work at any time, under any
conditions, whether there is input power or not. The data would be
meaningless; all of the results would be in error. This error would have
been revealed during the 18-hour flowing water test, as Rossi and I have
pointed out many times.
The input power is 80 to 400 W, which is small fraction of the output
power, so cutting it off entirely has little effect on the total output.
Obviously, reducing overall output from ~12 kW to ~11.2 kW will not stop
the thing from boiling!
A calorimetric error mistaking 400 W for 12,000 W is out of the
question. The worst flow calorimeter imaginable would not produce such a
large error.
I am curious as to how the steam was observed if the hose was in the
drain. If the steam stopped then water pouring out of the hose should
have followed immediately if the 5 ml/s pump rate was maintained.
If the steam was stopped, the temperature would drop immediately. There
is a constant flow of water into the cell. It takes little time to
replace all of the water with cold water. If the only source of heat was
electricity, two things are certain:
1. It could not be 12 kW in the first place. The wire would melt. You
can't possibly conduct that much electricity over an ordinary wire.
2. Boiling would stop within seconds, and the temperature would drop.
It is notable that in the right conditions "steam" will be seen coming
off a hot bowl of soup, or even a cool river. You can't actually see
steam of course, only condensation. Too bad there is no video of this
event.
You cannot tell much about steam by looking at a photo or video. You
cannot discern the quality of the steam. Lomax claimed here that he can
determine the velocity of the steam by looking, but he did not describe
his method. I do not think that is possible.
- Jed
