Mark Goldes wrote:
In case you have not seen this...
http://www.gifnet.org/
The music on that web site is annoying. It appears to be nothing more than
a frame with Naudin's own web site:
http://jlnlabs.imars.com/mahg/tests/mahg2c.htm
This has an equally annoying pop-up advertisement for online gambling. Oh,
how low we must go to fund this research.
Boy! What should we make of Naudin? He seems honest and well-intentioned,
but when he makes claims like this it makes me nervous. I cannot tell
whether he has solved the energy crisis at a stroke, or gone off the deep end.
This site has many fine photographs and lots of graphs and data, but no
general explanation as to how the gadget is supposed to work, or the
experimental method. Here are two general introductions that I confess
leave me little wiser:
http://jlnlabs.imars.com/mahg/tests/index.htm
http://jlnlabs.imars.com/mahg/logbook.htm
Perhaps this is a minor issue, but this gadget appears to violate the first
law of thermodynamics.
The experimental method appears to be flow calorimetry:
http://jlnlabs.imars.com/mahg/setup.htm
What I do not understand is how and why they manage to keep the input and
output temperatures stable while they rapidly vary the flow of water. That
seems difficult. They must have a feedback mechanism. Is there a reason
they do it this way? Most people use the opposite approach, keeping the
water flow as stable as possible while varying either input power, input
power plays heater power (McKubre's method), or by letting the output
temperature (and cell temperature) fluctuate.
- Jed
