-----Original Message----- From: Jed Rothwell Nagel: "Given the input water flow of about 150 grams each half minute ..."
OK, here is one more suspicious detail to check on, for anyone inclined - the flow rate. This assumption of 300g/min above could be way off. According to an excellent experimentalist, all the water being circulated through the reactor is being pumped by the yellow pump shown in the second section. That yellow pump is made by LMI and is a model LMI-AA-xxx. They have a website, and specify the maximum and minimum pumping capacities for all AA models. The minimum capacity is based on 1 cycle/minute, and Focardi's pump was operating at approx 1 cycle/sec, so an upper limit can be placed on the volume of water pumped. Using LMI's highest volume AA model pump at 1 cycle/sec yields .9 liter/hour, or approx 900 grams/hour. This far less than claimed. >From there it is easy to determine the amount of energy necessary to heat and boil 900 grams of water. The result is 328 Kj/hr to heat (Delta t = 87 C) and 2031 Kj/hr to boil. Dividing the sum of 328+2013 by 3600 yields the power in watts or about 656W. This number is ~10% or Focardi's energy claim. Could someone please pass this on to whoever is looking into this kind of discrepancy. Jones
