The varying water flow is caused by turbulence in the heat exchanger. Apparently the anode get hot enough to vaporize some of the water at the contact layer leading to local steam bubbles that interfere with smooth water flow.
Regards, Horace At 23:13 2005-10-27, you wrote: >Horace wrote: > >>Jed, >> >>The JLN's MAHD does NOT disassociate water! The water is merely a cooling >>medium for the anode. > >Well, I figured as much. > > >>The heat in the MAHD is generated in a gaseous hydrogen at 0.1atm pressure >>between inner heated cathode and outer cold anode. This is essentially a >>vacuum tube, but without electrical HV polarization between cathode and >>anode. . . . > >Thanks. That is clearer than anything I can find on Naudin's website. Can you >tell us why they vary the flow of water? And how? It must be a feedback >mechanism. > >They should make this thing self-sustain. At these temperatures and power >levels it should not be hard to find a Stirling engine generator or something >like that. > >- Jed > >
