On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jouni Valkonen <jounivalko...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> It is important that tea pot does not overflow, because it messes up >> calculations, because steam is not dry anymore. Therefore E-Cat's >> inner volume has to be big enough to account power fluctuations >> because peak power can surge over 120 kW. On the other hand if all the >> water boils away, core temperature may rise too high. >> > > That is an astute observation. Thank you. > Well it might be if the reactor were at the bottom of a tea pot, and the output at the top of the pot. But the input and output to the reactor are both horizontal at the same level. The water is passed by the reactor in a pretty small cylinder, and is heated as it goes by. On the side where the cold water flows in, the reactor is always going to be wet. On the other side, it might dry up, in which case the steam would increase in temperature. That has not happened in any of the demos. > > You are right that if the water boils away the temperature will rise > rapidly. > Rossi claims the water does boil away. It's the central assumption to his calculations. > > While the machine is running, Rossi is constantly checking the screen > numbers and adjusting the anomalous heat. > No he's not. He's walking in to the next room and holding the hose up in front of a t-shirt. He's stroking his invention and explaining it to Krivit. He's walking over to the hydrogen bottle and explaining how to charge the cell. And what is this "adjusting the anomalous heat"? Is he Kreskin? This thing is supposed to be ready for commercialization. Does every ecat sold come with a clone of Rossi? I'm beyond incredulous. I do not know he does this, but apparently he is able to do it. He changes > the input power slightly, I think. > Aha. And yet before you said he couldn't be changing the input power because Krivit woulda noticed. > I assume he is keeping the teapot full without letting it overflow. It > would be easier to do this with a tube on the outside. > > Of course this can be automated. He is running the thing manually. > You're just making excuses so you can cling to what is becoming an untenable position. Automating what you are suggesting is harder than engineering self-power (assuming the claims are valid), and you say that's too hard.
