Jones, I think you are wrong about most of these points. The proof will be in the experiment when it is conducted.
> 1) We know from this report that the insert shown will already reach > the limit of temperature sustainability for Kanthal wire at about 800 > watts. To go higher will demand active cooling (above convection). > This is probably almost true for the inner heater coil, which will model to some extent the LENR produced heat in the reactor core tube. We will probably be able to add only up to 1kW in this coil. It is supplementary to the main heater coil which will be around this one. We believe the main Kanthal coil can supply 2.4kW. The total electrical heater input for the experiment can get to the 3.4kW range. > 2) This kind of wire has better thermal characteristics than the > Inconel wire which was originally reported to have been used in Lugano. > The heater wire used in the Lugano hotCat is only of side interest. It is not important to the experiment. If Rossi used a moly silicide or SiC heater, it would have needed leads that could well have been inconel. It is unimportant to the result of the experiment. > 3) Adding any conceivable layer over the insert which does not cool > the wire will only REDUCE the power needed to maintain the maximum > sustainable internal temperature > The internal temperature is important only insuring that the internal heater doesn't burn out. When the convection tube is added, it is not clear if the conduction will exceed the convection of this small tube. We will add about 1kW max to the internal coil and it gets us closer to the claimed total internal power of the Lugano hotCat (LENR + electrical input). > 4) The original Levi report was later altered by Rossi when he > learned from critics that the Inconel wire being used could not sustain the > temperature claim. > Again, entirely immaterial to the result of the Lugano test or to our experiment to confirm. > 5) Rossi essentially “invented” in his own mind a new type of > non-existent wire alloy to try to remedy the situation, which now others > are trying to remedy for him - with all this talk about refractory wire. > Basically this tactic of putting words in Levi’s report, to make details > work on paper, but without any evidence of reality other than a hope to see > the experiment work, sounds like complete BS to skeptics. > Again, entirely immaterial to the result of the Lugano test or to our experiment to confirm. > 6) Since Goldwater’s insert already shows conclusively that no > greater power can be added than he has added in the convection test > (without compromising the ability of the wire to carry current), it is > essentially not possible to do what is being suggested, in any remote way. > > IOW Goldater’s experiment has already proved the Levi Lugano report is > bogus. > If what you were saying is true, it would be proving that if the calculated output power from the Lugano experiment was correct that there must be LENR heat contribution because it would not have been possible for such a heater to produce all of that heat by electrical input, despite the fact that the electrical input was measured to be much less. However, the statement is wrong. The total heat that the MFMP replica will be capable of accepting from an electrical input standpoint will be in the range of 3.2-3.6kW as the sum of the powers delivered to the two Kanthal heater coils. The heater may not last very long with such high input, but it doesn't have to. We will collect substantial data as the temperature rises and until the heaters fail. The other stuff (hotCat heater type) is interesting, but completely irrelevant to the Lugano test results or to our replica dummy test. Bob Higgins
