It had to be long enough to measure and record it; a number of seconds at a minimum.
It is hard to say what part of the reactor is the first point of failure. We cannot assume that the nickel catalyst (NiO?) would fail first. The reactor would not last long at that temperature because the reactor vessel walls would begin to melt at 1400C. As the walls of the reactor vessel weakened, boosted by the heat, the hydrogen under very high pressure would escape at some point and explode. Also, the internal heater would fail at such high temperatures. On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:05 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > In reply to Axil Axil's message of Thu, 5 May 2011 04:09:15 -0400: > Hi, > [snip] > >The very fact that the Rossi process can ever got to 1600C indicated that > >the active nuclear areas in the catalyst survived to at least that > >temperature level. This indicates that the melting point of the catalyst > was > >a few hundred degree C above that 1600C temperature. NiO melts at 2000C. > [snip] > He also didn't say how long it was at that temperature, it may have only > been a > split second. ;) > > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html > >
