To me the dispute between Rossi and IH is very simple to resolve. If there is any weaknesses in the test one need to agree on a fair rerun of the test for a day or two. There is abolutely no sane argument for not doing such a test. Rossi has no arguments against doing that. It's peanuts compared to running it for one year. So conclude that the result is unbelievable and that there is more things that needs to be checked, show a few things that are fishy and then IH could just ask the judge to order Rossi to comply with a good test or loose. Why on earth must a judge decide what's science, better rule that science decide.
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 10:19 PM, a.ashfield <[email protected]> wrote: > Daniel Rocha, > The melting temperature of most types of glass is around 550C and the > specific heat is 0.7J/gC. The latent heat of glass is 10kJ/mol, and on > average, it has 60g/mol, so we have 166J/g. 1.5*10^6g*530*0.7J + > 166*1.5*10^6J per day, that around 880MJ/day. If the exposition work lasted > 8 hours a day, we have ~20KW." > > A classic example of how someone without experience can get things so > wrong. You are confusing the softening point with the temperature > required to fine the glass - that is to say remove the smallest bubbles. > Ordinary furnaces used to operate @ ~1500C in my day but some are now are > over 1600C. > The many furnaces I'm familiar with typically used 4 -5 million BTU per > ton. Some used as much as 7 million BTU. Smaller furnaces use more. This > particular furnace was very unusual in that it operated as a cold top > electric furnace but glass was only used from it 8 hours a day. Of course > it had to keep working 24/7 or the throat would freeze and it would lose > the batch blanket - a design feature that made it different. I don't have > the actual figures for it but would be surprised if it were less than 5 > million BTU/ton. Most furnaces that size would use about 10 million BTU/ton > > In passing, being familiar with measuring high temperatures was why I > wondered why they didn't use type S thermocouples. We would even use type > B in places where long life was required as the rhodium tends to migrate to > the platinum leg. > >
