On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 9:10 AM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson < [email protected]> wrote:
> > Mary, as already suggested by Mr. Rothwell, I suggest you might want > to consider performing an actual physical experiment. I'm sure you > have sufficient tools at your disposal to perform such an experiment. > For example, if you have access to an electric stove, heat up one of > the smaller elements to the point that it becomes red hot. Then, > carefully remove it from the stove (using tongs and insulated gloves!) > and dump it into a pail of water.<SNIP> > Rossi is not dumping a preheated steel mass into a bucket of water. He's insulating it very carefully and trickling water through it at a very modest rate. I've always been struck at the low and hesitant flow from his pumps. Click... click..........click...... And the flow measurements are not impressive. There is discussion at the links I provided that the October 6 flow rate also may have been mismeasured. I admit I did not read that -- the translation really annoys me and I know absolutely no Italian. Anyway, and I don't want to restart that argument all over again, with the output levels Rossi claimed in his early experiments, I'd expect a very healthy looking output of heat and steam and that is not what independent observers, for example Krivit, saw. And to go way back in the history, Levi's claim of a 130kW transient in a small E-cat has to be a measurement or thermocouple placement error -- it should have made enough steam pressure to explode (or to pop a relief plug or valve) if it were real. I won't point out again the details of how these arguments could all have been easily avoided if Rossi had chosen to bother.
