Just don't call JT vaughn! On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Alain Sepeda <[email protected]> wrote:
> I cannot imagine someone, especially a corp executive, is enough a gambler > to give a non-functional reactor to physicist team, expecting they don't > find a way to calibrate it up to target temperature, to use a known > emissivity dot or fluid, to install a thermocouple, a bolometer, or simply > to test the melting of a metal or make a simple high-school test... > > I hope that the testers are working on an answer, and I feel concerned > they did not yet. > > from far, and from the interest of all the domain (I know the skeptics > tactics) it have to be fast and furious... hum, fast and serious. > > this is damage control. > if Parkhomov is well replicated, damage can be controlled, but if not > someone have to call Darden and ask at least for a dummy, as Peter Gluck is > doing today. > > today important people start to move, if they are frightened by credible > doubts, it will be terrible. > > Defcon 2. > > 2015-02-04 18:30 GMT+01:00 Bob Cook <[email protected]>: > >> Jed-- >> >> Rossi is smarter than that. He would also have measured emissivity years >> ago in designing the temperature/camera instrument. >> >> I would guess the material which is being used as a "dogbone" has a >> different amount of calcium or something else, because of the dogs diet.:) >> >> Bob >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> *From:* Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 04, 2015 8:01 AM >> *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:Notes from MFMP Lugano Thermal Verification -- >> emissivity should have been .95? >> >> Quote from Notes: >> >> "The main revelation was that the emissivity required for the camera to >> correctly interpret the temperatures on the surface was very close to .95. >> When we plugged in the emissivities cited from literature in the Lugano >> report (0.8 to 0.4), the apparent temperature was 1200 to 1500C at 900W >> in. Is our cast alumina significantly different than other alumina >> materials? Tomorrow we can compare several temperatures at once on a 1/2" >> OD alumina tube that we purchased from McMaster Carr. . . ." >> >> Uh oh. That does not sound good for Levi et al. >> >> - Jed >> >> >
