On a more serious note, someone who may have achieved some street creed with Rossi might want to pop this interesting heat transfer question to Ross at his blog. It might be interesting to see how Rossi responds. Could be highly revealing.
Peter Gluck, comes to mind as the "volunteer" for his dangerous mission! ;-) Perhaps we should first wait for Beene's forthcoming heat-transference data before popping the question. Heat transference is indeed a tricky engineering problem. As volume increases it becomes vital to increase the amount of surface area where heat transfer can occur. Thus heat flanges and fins are created to assist in this endeavor. Internal cooling coils and tubes can also be built into solid blocks of "volume", to assist in the dissipation of heat. However, there is a subtle point that might have been overlooked here. Consider the flip side. As overall volume decreases excess surface area becomes LESS critical because what volume exists can more easily escape - since all "volume" is relatively close to a surface area. Therefore... it IS conceivable from my POV that Rossi's smaller e-kittins might be able to more efficiently transfer heat due to their inherent smaller volume as compared to the bigger sisters, the e-cat. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
