Been following this discussion carefuly, since I can understand the point being made... Stephen asked, "And if the reactor is putting out an extra 500 watts over and above the amount to exactly vaporize the water, exactly *where* do you think that extra 500 watts is going?"
The answer, which should be obvious to most Vorts and not need to be stated, is: Any energy (heat) that is NOT used to vaporize the water, obviously goes into heating up the pot (or reactor), and then radiating or conducting away depending on what the pot (or reactor) is in contact with. So, did anyone have a temperature probe on the BODY of the reactor? Since I doubt there was, we do not have enough data to conclude anything at this time. More importantly, it is certainly a reasonable possibility that Rossi knows exactly how to engineer the 'internal workings' of that reactor so it puts out a fairly constant amount of heat. He could be using it in an 'open loop' configuration, and so long as they 'calibrated' the water flow rate, they could get thru an hour demo successfully. I.e., the amount of Ni powder, how much of it is 'exposed' to the H and catalyst, etc., could all be engineered to produce a fairly constant amount of heat. Yes, it might be fluctuating up and down a bit, but it could certainly be stable enough to get thru that demo. I would think that a 24 hour demo would definitely need some kind of closed-loop system... -Mark
