Uhhh. I give up. How is a kink in a thermal curve evidence of exothermic activity?
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]>wrote: > At 06:38 PM 7/15/2011, Alan J Fletcher wrote: > >> At 03:21 PM 7/15/2011, Akira Shirakawa wrote: >> >>> A new interview to Sergio Focardi has been posted on Passerini's blog >>> here: >>> http://22passi.blogspot.com/**2011/07/intervista-di-focardi-** >>> energylab.html<http://22passi.blogspot.com/2011/07/intervista-di-focardi-energylab.html> >>> Google translated short link: http://goo.gl/nxcMG >>> It contains some interesting bits of information. I recommend reading it. >>> >> >> It confirms the 60-70C ignition temperature, which we suspected from the >> temperature plots. >> >> But that's bad news for Kim's Bose-Einstein condensate paper, which >> suggests that the ignition temp might be the Curie point -- 348C >> > > Ummmm... Focardi might just be discussing the behavior of the E-Cat, > without disclosing the temperature of the reaction chamber. My understanding > was that it was much higher, maybe around 450 C. But what was that based on? > I'd have to look back, it might just have been some assumption. > > If there is low thermal resistance (for some weird reason, I've used the > term "thermal inertia," someone point out the error) between the reaction > chamber and the cooling chamber, then we have a problem, possibly, with > scale-up to higher operating temperatures, as has been assumed, and > announced by DGE. >
