On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]>wrote:
> At 12:55 AM 7/18/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <<mailto: >> [email protected]>a**[email protected] <[email protected]>> wrote: >> At 09:14 PM 7/17/2011, Akira Shirakawa wrote: >> So most of the time he now performs stress tests on his modules in >> self-sustaining mode, apparently. That's an amazing claim! Just >> demonstrating one of those running for a reasonable amount of time would >> have rendered pointless most of the discussions and criticisms on steam >> issues made so far, even Julian Brown's. >> >> >> Now consider this possibility: Rossi wanted this exact situation, that >> he'd look like a complete scammer. He need to make the demo for some reason, >> whether it was personal for Focardi, or whatever, it doesn't matter, but he >> had a contrary need, to throw others off track, to inhibit attempts to >> replicate what he's doing. If he looks like a fraud and a scammer, that will >> seriously impact the ability of others to get funding to try to figure out >> what he's doing. >> >> >> The only problem with this theory is that it doesn't explain his boast >> about running the ecat without input, or for that matter, getting 120 kW in >> the 18-hour test. >> > > No theory explains everything, it is an intrinsic limitation of all > theories. > > However, we know that Rossi is, shall we say, enthusiastic, and not > terribly careful about what he says. The 18-hour test allegedly showed a > transient temperature phenomenon that has been interpreted as 120 kW. Just > for starters, that might be explained, for example, by some scale whacking > the flow drastically for a short time. > > Or it might be that the thing actually produced 120 kW for a short time, > which would make me really worried about putting one of these in my > basement! It is possible to have too much of a good thing! > > > The 120 kW excursion makes the 18-hr test less credible to me. It means that during that excursion the delta T between the ecat walls and the water would have to increase by an order of magnitude. If ordinary operation is at 300C or 400C, this would cause the metal to melt.
