From: Jed Rothwell
* Similar stainless steel surfaces in teapots transfer heat at roughly this rate without difficulty. Nonsense. Water going thru the Rossi reactor is in contact with the reactor only for milliseconds ! A teapot takes minutes to boil. . or even longer, if you are watching <g> Thus there is at least a 1000:1 error in that anecdotal appraisal, which is not a surprise, given how much of an emotional stake seems to be involved. One simply cannot cherry-pick little snippets and anecdotes, and expect a real scientific analysis. Let's leave that to the experts. And no, in a nuclear reactor - much of the heat transferred to water is via neutrons and other radiation, and the water is highly pressurized to boot. When neutrons are "moderated" they are slowed and transfer their energy - thus the water heats up. Pressurization makes a huge difference when flash steam is possible. A bubble sheath is better thermal insulation that air ! and that is what Rossi would have - unless you can figure out a way that he also got the copper tubing wrapped around the reactor and crammed into that small volume. The water flow through the Rossi reactor has no apparent back pressure. And he says it is straight-thru, which seems to be what the images indicate. It is doubly ironic, now that I think more about it - that my take on Rossi's "honesty quotient" actually makes it likely that when he says straight-thru it is misdirection, and what he really means is that he has gone to great lengths to find some kind of capillary tubing arrangement which will fit and will provide back pressure at the same time. Jones
