When your theory of operation is correct things start falling into place: the angels will begin to sing. I believe that my theory is good and will produce correct predictions as time moves forward. Time will tell.
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > > When the Cat-E was downsized, the reaction chamber was greatly reduced in >> size. So was the internal heater in like proportion. But the copper pipes in >> the water loop are standard commercial grade sizes and therefore stayed the >> same size. . . . >> > > >> . . . The reaction chamber must get up to 400C to condition the catalyst >> with hydrogen when the hydrogen is initially loaded. The internal heater >> could not do that any longer since it would have been greatly downsized. >> >> >> >> A supplemental external band heater was added to heat these external >> copper piping in the water loop so that the internally heater wound not have >> to overcome that heat drain overhead imposed by the structure of the Cat-E. >> > > Ah! That makes sense. That sounds plausible. > > Did you just make that up, or is that something Rossi indicated in his > blog? (Or did someone else say it?) > > Come to think of it, E&K do refer to it as an "auxiliary electric heater" > perhaps meaning there is another heater. > > I suppose you could not use it for this purpose if the water is flowing. > > - Jed > >
