One final point on how potential energy, in the form of a high flow of water (l/sec) which comes from a one horsepower motor can be converted into a significant amount of energy in any device that can involve magnetostriction and/or cavitation. This is why you absolutely must include the pump motor as input.
Rothwell states (incorrectly) that it is "impossible to add measurable friction with this equipment (these pipes and pumps), and if you could somehow add it, they would measure it. It would be present before you turn the cell on, and after you turn it off. It would not suddenly magically appear when you turn on the power to the resistors." What he misses of course is the one place where he personally has seen small gain - the Griggs pump, and the cavitation effect. How ironic in a way - this is not friction per se, but it could be gainful. And as we have been taking recently, there is every reason to suspect a magnetostriction effect on the nickel. It would be hard NOT TO HAVE IT. This magnetostriction could easily operate like ultrasonics to convert pressurized high flow water into cavitation bubbles - and guess what sports fans - they would not measure it at the start. It would be not be present before you turn the cell, on and after you turn it off. It does not show up till the heater fires up ! It would in fact "suddenly magically appear when you turn on the power to the resistors". Not only that, the cavitation itself could be slightly OU (if Griggs is slightly OU). In effect the 1 hp of pressurized water flow - combined with a magnetostriction effect could serve to convert the flow into kW levels of heat. This could be as much as 20% of the heat seen. I doubt it is that high, but we cannot rule out that it is even higher! It is too much of a coincidence that the reactor loses it effect at a temperature which coincides with the Curie point of nickel; not to mention that the "resistors" have a magnetic field. Jones
