Dear Joshua, Perhaps "*a possibly flawed demo*" would be more fair and more technical. Wishful thinking is pardonable, wishful reasoning and logic- not so. Edward de Bono says that the majority of errors are errors of perception not of logic. I am convinced that: - a) the steam was bone dry; - b) the pump has delivered the exact flow as claimed and calibrated by Levi
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Joshua Cude <joshua.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Horace Heffner <hheff...@mtaonline.net> wrote: >> >> >>> As a double check on concepts, if you plug x=0.02856 into >>> x/((x+(1-x)*0.0006)) then you get 0.98. That is to say, 98% of the mass of >>> the volume expelled is water, and 2% steam - your starting assumptions. >> >> >> As a double check on this discussion, you should note that they have now >> run the cell with hot water only, no phase change, and they found it >> recovered even more heat than with the phase change. So this speculation >> about wet steam and greatly reduced enthapy is incorrect. >> >> Evidently Dr. Galantini was correct, and the steam was dry. Either that or >> these estimates of the enthalpy of wet steam are incorrect. I do not know >> which true, and it does not matter. A different method has now been used to >> confirm the original conclusion. >> > > > So the flawed public demo has been vindicated by a private unofficial demo. > As David Letterman used to say when Dick Cheney said the war in Iraq was > going well: > > That's good enough for me. > > > > > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
