That may be. I reviewed the picture with the cover off, and the cover doesn't appear as substantial as I remembered. But there sure are a lot of bolts to hold it down. Far more than would be needed if it were only pressurized to slightly more than normal (as Rossi claims.
And, I suspect any device we might examine that *does* handle 10 bars has a considerable safety margin built in. I don't know that Rossi would worry about running his device without the typical safety margins, especially if it covered up some trick he was relying on to make his gadget appear to work. ________________________________ From: David Roberson <dlrober...@aol.com> To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 6:53 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:University testing of the E-cat question asked on Rossi blog I think that the device would explode long before it reached 10 bars. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> To: John Milstone <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Sun, Jan 22, 2012 5:09 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:University testing of the E-cat question asked on Rossi blog John Milstone <john_sw_orla...@yahoo.com> wrote: If the water was at 5 to 10 bars, it could easily be heated to 150 - 180 C. in the preheating process. At that point, being wrapped up in that massive insulation blanket, it would stay over 100 C for hours. There was a TC in the reactor. It measured over 100 deg C, but not 150 to 180 deg C. Also, in that scenario, the surface temperature of the reactor would be very hot when the internal temperature reached 180 deg C,then it would gradually cool down. That is not in evidence. The surface temperature was measured several times. It did not vary much. - Jed
