Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:04 PM 8/17/2011, Alan J Fletcher wrote: At 04:11 PM 8/17/2011, Joe Catania wrote: The NASA calculations seem to have no validity. It dosen't seem possible to pin down the quality. There is not enough information to do so. That's my whole point. There IS enough information. In fact, the

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:42 PM 8/17/2011, Daniel Rocha wrote: Hmm. Not all Arabs are Muslims... In my city, most of them are catholic Christians and there are almost no Muslims. 2011/8/17 Alan J Fletcher mailto:a...@well.coma...@well.com At 04:41 PM 8/17/2011, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: I'll take on your bet

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:25 PM 8/17/2011, Joe Catania wrote: Whatever the quality of the steam produced is, as far as I can see, going to go over into the hose unchanged. There is no facility in Rossi's device for superheating as far as we know. It will get a little wetter from condensation due to expansion at

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:20 PM 8/17/2011, Harry Veeder wrote: From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com Actually, that's not correct. Lewan apparently said that he noticed the same behavior with the sound each time he went to look at the steam outlet. Where did he say that? That is news to me. I am

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-18 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 08:08 PM 8/17/2011, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Your figure of 75% you seem to have made up. You wrote: No, I read it off this chart by Steiner-Taborek : http://lenr.qumbu.com/steampics/110816_steam_0014.png I have presented ample evidence that dryout occurs, that it correlates with steam

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-18 Thread Alan J Fletcher
I've put up a new version at http://lenr.qumbu.com/rossi_ecat_steam_v410C.php Scroll down to 11 Work in Progress -- where I review some stuff on flow diagrams. Unfortunately the calculations needed to derive the drypoint (and other stages) are beyond my capability and resources. However, I

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-18 Thread Joe Catania
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts) I've put up a new version at http://lenr.qumbu.com/rossi_ecat_steam_v410C.php Scroll down to 11 Work in Progress -- where I review some stuff on flow diagrams. Unfortunately the calculations needed

[Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Alan J Fletcher
http://lenr.qumbu.com/rossi_ecat_steam_v410A.php (Working Draft) Comments and corrections appreciated -- either through vortex or directly AbstractThe issue of Steam Quality greatly impacts the calculations on the actual excess energy. This issue is extensively analyzed by Steven B. Krivit

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:30 PM 8/17/2011, Alan J Fletcher wrote: http://lenr.qumbu.com/rossi_ecat_steam_v410A.php (Working Draft) Comments and corrections appreciated -- either through vortex or directly Abstract The issue of Steam Quality greatly impacts the calculations on the actual excess energy.

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: http://lenr.qumbu.com/rossi_ecat_steam_v410A.php http://lenr.qumbu.com/rossi_ecat_steam_v410A.php%A0 (Working Draft) The hidden portion of the URL is wrong. This should be: http://lenr.qumbu.com/rossi_ecat_steam_v410A.php (looks the same but isn't) -

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Daniel Rocha
I have some corrections though. In one of the appendices, I have to find where, the loss in a 4m hose is about 400W. Rossi said that the ecat wastes 100W within the bulk of the device. So, the actual output is 3/4*(4900-500)= 3300W. I suppose there are also wasted energy to manage the operate the

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: I suppose there are also wasted energy to manage the operate the device. You mean, to power the electronics. I believe this is ~30 W. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 11:05 AM 8/17/2011, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: I'll answer your points in detail later. As I said, it's a work in progress. But I specifically indicate that the dryout is the point at which there is no liquid water on the tube wall. There IS still liquid water in the form of droplets in

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 11:18 AM 8/17/2011, you wrote: I have some corrections though. In one of the appendices, I have to find where, the loss in a 4m hose is about 400W. Rossi said that the ecat wastes 100W within the bulk of the device. So, the actual output is 3/4*(4900-500)= 3300W. I suppose there are also

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Daniel Rocha
It is 80W per meter. This calculation supports that: http://newenergytimes.com/v2/news/2011/37/3709appendixa4.shtml So, let's see 740*6=4400. So, 3/4*4400 = 3300.

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Daniel Rocha
BTW, I think Krivit won't accept anything you write. He wants just negative opinions about Rossi.

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 12:11 PM 8/17/2011, Daniel Rocha wrote: BTW, I think Krivit won't accept anything you write. He wants just negative opinions about Rossi. Maybe not but Rossi might !! (and I have another publication channel).

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Joe Catania
Subject: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts) http://lenr.qumbu.com/rossi_ecat_steam_v410A.php (Working Draft) Comments and corrections appreciated -- either through vortex or directly Abstract The issue of Steam Quality greatly impacts

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Joe Catania
Subject: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts) http://lenr.qumbu.com/rossi_ecat_steam_v410A.php (Working Draft) Comments and corrections appreciated -- either through vortex or directly Abstract The issue of Steam Quality greatly impacts

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:36 PM 8/17/2011, Alan J Fletcher wrote: At 11:05 AM 8/17/2011, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: I'll answer your points in detail later. As I said, it's a work in progress. But I specifically indicate that the dryout is the point at which there is no liquid water on the tube wall. There IS

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Joe Catania
- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 3:43 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts) At 02:36 PM 8/17/2011, Alan J Fletcher wrote: At 11:05 AM 8

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Joe Catania wrote: How do you explain the low velocity of steam at exit of E-Cat? No one measured the velocity as far as I know. There were some videos taken of it, but they do not prove anything. I recently borrowed a steam cleaner trying to fix bathroom grout. I looked at videos of

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 12:26 PM 8/17/2011, Joe Catania wrote: How do you explain the low velocity of steam at exit of E-Cat? This surely damns 75% dryness? I'm not convinced that has been proved. Please post a link which covers Kettle Tube boilers and Dryout . Kettle isn't very relevant to the eCat. Follow the

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Rich Murray
re concise, pointed emphasis on specifics, very objective, by Abd -- thanks anyone yet trying a dummy replication of the Rossi device by using an electric, pencil-shape resistor heater in a clear glass tube with fixed input water flow? Peter Gluck and others are talking up Francesco Pianelli:

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Joe Catania
measured was not relevant. Certainly there is nowhere near 10m/s flow at the end of the hose. - Original Message - From: Jed Rothwell To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 3:57 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Joe Catania
measured was not relevant. Certainly there is nowhere near 10m/s flow at the end of the hose. - Original Message - From: Jed Rothwell To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 3:57 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Alan J Fletcher
A new version is up : http://lenr.qumbu.com/rossi_ecat_steam_v410B.php I've rewritten it distinguishing FLUID from LIQUID, and replaced Watts by W. And I found a new diagram for the Drypout, which is explicitly scaled to the flow pattern diagram:

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 12:43 PM 8/17/2011, you wrote: At 02:36 PM 8/17/2011, Alan J Fletcher wrote: At 11:05 AM 8/17/2011, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: I'll answer your points in detail later. As I said, it's a work in progress. But I specifically indicate that the dryout is the point at which there is no liquid

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Alan, i am not sure what was the method that you used to end up into 4.4 kW. But there was that youtube video where it was boiled 4.4kW water with Rossi like setup. And there was considerably more steam than with Krivit's E-Cat. Also it is easier to calculate the total output of E-Cat calculating

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Joe Catania wrote: The Rossi machine, judging from what comes out of the hose is not producing any anomalous heat. You cannot judge what comes out of the hose. You have not measured it; not the speed, or the temperature, the dryness or any other parameter. You know practically nothing about

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: If you mean my numbers -- Given 75% dry I just read off the wattage on the Nasa diagram. Steam quality on the T-h diagram is linear between points B and C. I grew up with REAL instruments, where one learns to read a scale to about 5% accuracy between tick

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: People are obsessed with meaningless extra decimal digits of precision these days. After electronic calculators were invented, my mother said it is a shame people don't learn to use slide rules anymore, because they

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:36 PM 8/17/2011, Alan J Fletcher wrote: But I specifically indicate that the dryout is the point at which there is no liquid water on the tube wall. There IS still liquid water in the form of droplets in the vapour. I made a mistake in responding to Mr. Fletcher's work, I didn't

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Joe Catania
Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts) Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: If you mean my numbers -- Given 75% dry I just read off the wattage on the Nasa diagram. Steam quality on the T-h diagram is linear between points B and C. I grew up with REAL

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Joe Catania
possible. - Original Message - From: Jed Rothwell To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 5:39 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts) Joe Catania wrote: The Rossi machine, judging from what

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:49 PM 8/17/2011, Joe Catania wrote: One thing I think we have to admit is even if the steam flow rate is at the calculated ~10m/sec necessary (which dosen't appear to be the case), at the outlet of the E-Cat, that this would probably be sufficient to entrain high quantities of liquid

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:57 PM 8/17/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Joe Catania wrote: How do you explain the low velocity of steam at exit of E-Cat? No one measured the velocity as far as I know. There were some videos taken of it, but they do not prove anything. To anyone who has studied the volume of steam

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Joe Catania
(neglecting 100C metal surfaces). This gives ample opportunity to create wet steam. - Original Message - From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 7:19 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Joe Catania
(neglecting 100C metal surfaces). This gives ample opportunity to create wet steam. - Original Message - From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 7:19 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:51 PM 8/17/2011, Alan J Fletcher wrote: A new version is up : http://lenr.qumbu.com/rossi_ecat_steam_v410B.php I've rewritten it distinguishing FLUID from LIQUID, and replaced Watts by W. And I found a new diagram for the Drypout, which is explicitly scaled to the flow pattern diagram:

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:05 PM 8/17/2011, Alan J Fletcher wrote: What was really unusual for the Rossi boiler, what threw almost everyone off, was constant water flow. The implications of this were not realized, because it was something that even experts had probably never seen. And Galantini was certainly not

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 04:11 PM 8/17/2011, Joe Catania wrote: The NASA calculations seem to have no validity. It dosen't seem possible to pin down the quality. There is not enough information to do so. That's my whole point. There IS enough information. In fact, the temperatures and pressure don't matter. The

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: No one measured the velocity as far as I know. There were some videos taken of it, but they do not prove anything. To anyone who has studied the volume of steam expected from full vaporization as claimed, those videos raise substantial

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Joe Catania
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 8:04 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts) At 04:11 PM 8/17/2011, Joe Catania wrote: The NASA calculations seem to have no validity. It dosen't seem possible to pin down the quality

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Harry Veeder
From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com Actually, that's not correct. Lewan apparently said that he noticed the same behavior with the sound each time he went to look at the steam outlet.   Where did he say that? That is news to me. I am not even aware of Lewan commenting on the

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 05:09 PM 8/17/2011, Joe Catania wrote: I don't think so. The quality can be anything from 0 to 1 but it is likely to be very wet. There is no diagram that can tell you the quality as is insinuated in the Nasa article. Chimney overflowing with what? Overflowing with fluid, liquid water.

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Joe Catania
17, 2011 8:24 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts) At 05:09 PM 8/17/2011, Joe Catania wrote: I don't think so. The quality can be anything from 0 to 1 but it is likely to be very wet. There is no diagram that can tell you

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 04:41 PM 8/17/2011, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: I'll take on your bet that a 5% Dry fully-atomized stream is possible. One pint of beer/glass of wine ? I don't drink alcohol. Read the name. My apologies. Equivalent value, then ... say $5. Means of delivery to be determined.

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Daniel Rocha
Hmm. Not all Arabs are Muslims... In my city, most of them are catholic Christians and there are almost no Muslims. 2011/8/17 Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com At 04:41 PM 8/17/2011, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: I'll take on your bet that a 5% Dry fully-atomized stream is possible. One pint of

Re: [Vo]:Answering Krivit #3: eCat steam quality must be above 75% (above 4300 Watts)

2011-08-17 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 04:41 PM 8/17/2011, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: That's 11 litres or 3 Gallons. I think he'd have noticed that. Lewan found about half the water ended up in the bucket. He noticed it, in other words, he measured it. Unfortunately, he did not examine it closely enough. It would have been far