On 18/10/2014 10:51 AM, James Bowery wrote:
Active cooling would work as well as active heating so you don't need
to worry about carnot efficiency. Start it up and then keep it just
hot enough by pumping a liquid, under controlled rates, with an
appropriately high boiling point and decent specific heat and
conductivity through the system at 1200C. Liquid metal of an
appropriate amalgam or even some liquid salts would do.
I wouldn't be surprised if someone has suggested this before.
I for one have suggested this before (as it really is most obvious!) and
it has been discussed following that. Firstly a year ago (6 Oct 2013)
titled "Rossi/Defkalion Calorimetry Nonsense" and a more careful
analysis (9 Oct 2013) on an ensuing thread titled "ECAT Active Cooling
Control"
