On 02/21/2011 03:28 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > > "This was a test without steam (with the Delta-T deliberately well > below those achieved last January 14)." > > That's what Celani was looking for. That's good.
Good? That's *great*! Is there a paper on it, either present or forthcoming, I hope, I hope? The presence of steam, and the absence of clear documentation of the "dryness test" which was actually done, along with the invisibility of the end of the hose during the bulk of the run, totally muddies the water. Flow calorimetry with water as the effluent (and, yes, with the brand and model of the pump given, to avoid squabbles over whether the guys in Italy know how to use a graduated cylinder and stopwatch) would bring the results pretty much within range of the term "rock solid." (Only Mitch Swartz, with his widdershins-vortex anomaly or whatever it is he thinks invalidates all flow calorimetry, would object, I think.)
