Alan J Fletcher wrote:
In any event, this puts the thermocouple only 2 cm away from the
center-line, and the thickness of the top of the manifold looks to be
about 1 cm.
Of course, rulers haven't been invented yet, so these distances are
estimates.
(Sorry, Jed ... this problem won't go away.)
I said you will never get to the bottom of this, and it is not worth
trying. Just throw away the thermocouple values, and look at it strictly
as a record of performance. Assume the thermocouples recorded the
average temperature between the cooling water and the steam pipe. That
is approximation, but it is good enough. Based on the increases and
decreases alone you can be sure there was anomalous heat. It might have
been less than calculated from the temperature values but there was
definitely anomalous heat lasting for hours and it was definitely
boiling in the cell, so the details don't matter. At least, they don't
matter to someone with Rossi's outlook.
- Jed
