I agree that the old cats were quite a bit different than the new ones. The new devices have a lot of potential volume to contain vapor above the water. And of course the very tiny hole associated with the output valve would make water have a hard time finding its way out with the dry steam. If the ECAT is full of water, then all bets are off.
The test on October 6 had an interesting upward bump near the end of the test period. I concluded that this was the result of water beginning to fill the ECAT and "clog" up the valve causing the pressure to rise. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Joshua Cude <joshua.c...@gmail.com> To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Sat, Nov 19, 2011 12:54 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:High school physics says > 1 GJ excess energy for the Oct. 28 demo On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Robert Leguillon <robert.leguil...@hotmail.com> wrote: Dave, Have you examined the earlier E-Cat tests? Before the "Fat-Cat" (or as Nasa calls it the "Ottoman", Rossi was claiming complete vaporization under circumstances that were obviously, I mean REALLY obviously, wrong. This is the main reason that skeptics have been referring to the condensed, recirculating, steam as "the steam trick" redux. You may have reviewed all of this, and if so, I apologize. You just seem to make some intelligent observations, and I wonder if you are missing some background from June and earlier. Did you read: http://newenergytimes.com/v2/news/2011/37/3706appendixa1.shtml It's a great summation of what Cude is trying to get across. Yes, he makes the same argument, but I don't agree completely with his interpretation, In the second last picture in that file, he is showing the chimney filled with water and steam above it. But steam is formed in the reactor, and has to pass through the water. Since even a small amount of steam (1%) would immediately occupy most of the space (> 90%), you should see the chimney filled mainly with steam and water broken up into some sort of a mist or climbing up the walls or something. So that's why I think you'd get a mist forming, and becoming entrained in the steam, rather than the sort of separation of steam and liquid shown in the picture.
