On 11-06-18 09:21 PM, Terry Blanton wrote:
I don't think Galantini is a thermodynamics expert. Jed is right about sparging the steam. Why do they insist on using phase change measurements anyway? There are a dozen better ways to measure energy flow.
OK, you asked for it, somebody should say it. We've all been dancing around it, but it hasn't quite been said in so many words, so here it is:
It's a lot easier to produce phony results which look good when you do it with a phase change of this sort. Flow calorimetry with single-phase water is a lot harder to fool.
There, I said it, now you can claim I'm being pathologically skeptical and psychotically paranoid -- and I'll apologize profusely and eat every word of it, when ... and if ... this thing is finally either REPLICATED or COMMERCIALIZED. But right now, IMO it smells, and it's smelled all along, and smelly stuff hardly ever turns out to be pure gold.
