--- Horace Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 31, 2006, Jed Rothwell wrote: > > Anyway, this discussion is irrelevant, in a sense, because there is no question there was a huge burst of anomalous energy underwater before the explosion, so even if the explosion was caused by recombination of gas in the incubator, that does not begin to explain the anomalous heat in the cell.
Wait a minute. You guys are not listening. This is not irrelevant because the anomalous energy itself is what disproves a hydrogen explosion. This is the most relevant item of all. > I made no attempt to explain the heat in the cell, only to explain the blast effects. These are separate issues. No. Once again. A temperature rise of 17,000 degrees in 10 seconds in the cathode is proof postive that there could have been NO preexisting hydogen in the headspace (unless oxygen was totally absent). No prexisting hydrogen in the headspace indicates that there was none in the hood. Had there been any significant remnant hydrogen in either place, the explosion would have occured much sooner than the ten seconds and we could not possibly have seen the 60 degrees delta T in the remaining water. As to the damage, this is consistent with a few micrograms of sublimated tungsten at 17,000 degrees transfering heat to the water so that there was a flash steam explosion. The very small mass of accelerating material at high kinetic energy could not have damaged a much larger mass of tubing or other parts (million to one mass difference). Jones
