At 09:55 AM 12/28/2012, Roarty, Francis X wrote:
Axil,
etc.
This is Vortex, and you guys are certainly free to speculate at the
drop of a hat or a popper.
However, I'm also free to note that trying to figure out what is
going on with Russ's popper, when we have just about zero information
about anything unusual happening, it like trying to see what is in a
closed black box in a coal mine at midnight. And no light.
What's in there? *Anything* could be in there. Boo!
If Russ really wants to do something useful, he can start measuring
the work done by that piston. It should be simple to do. Since it is
reported that the thing doesn't heat up, no calorimetry is necessary,
at least not yet. One regular characteristic of Papp engines is that
they reportedly don't generate much, if any, heat. Just, allegedly, work.
Okay, how much work with hou much energy input. A popper is perfect
for testing this, avoiding all the complications of cycling engines.
If there is no excess power in a single cycle, why would we even be
interested in seeing if power can be sustained?
