On Jan 31, 2006, at 11:17 AM, Jones Beene wrote:
All I can say is that NO WAY is this only a hydrogen-only explosion - IF Dr. Mizuno has supplied us with accurate information.
There is no evidence that prevents the possibility of the explosion being solely hydrogen fueled, especially fueled by hydrogen in the incubator. That is not to say the cell heating was hydrogen fueled. Nobody has said that. The cell heating and the explosion likely had differing energy sources. There is no indication the explosion occurred inside the Tygon coils, thus no indication the explosion itself or the energy for the explosion was linked directly to the cathode or anode.
Hydrogen in the headspace would have exploded in less than 3 seconds at this rate of temperature gain
Please explain how you came up with this number. It sounds like an arbitrary guess, based on erroneous assumptions. The mechanism of the heating and even the source of heat is not nailed down. Second, the explosion and the cell heating are not even linked except that one may have triggered the other.
- and the water would never have had the chance to heat up.
This depends on the mechanism for heating the water.
There is zero doubt about that (given accurate inforamtion)
There is only zero doubt that we don't have all the needed information to draw certain conclusions.
Horace Heffner
