Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote:
> This amount of heat would have melted over a ton of steel and Rothwell > thinks it that it represents reality in a 5 kilo reactor ! > It would have melted a ton of steel if it had been used for that purpose, but it was used to heat water instead. In 15 minutes, it heated 0.9 tons of water up to 40°C. As Beene points out, the specific heat of steel is 420J/KG/Deg C. The specific heat of water it is 4187J/KG (4.187 kJ/kgK), just about 10 times more than steel and most other metals. See: http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/water-thermal-properties-d_162.html - Jed
