On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]>wrote:
> > While two heaters is possible, it's not what is reported. The description > here is a bit garbled. There are two chambers, the reaction chamber and the > cooling chamber. There may be a third chamber, a closed coolant chamber that > transfers heat from the reaction chamber to the cooling chamber. I think > it's been said that this is a solution of water and some dissolved chemical > that raises the boiling point. > > If I'm correct, the external band heater supplies heat to the reaction > chamber, which then implies that either the reaction chamber is at one end, > or the reaction chamber surrounds the cooling chamber(s). I'm not looking at > all the released information. But I've seen nothing that would indicate a > second heater, though it's obviously not impossible. The E & K report mentions an auxiliary heater inside the reactor, and shows pictures of where the wires for it come out. It's hard to see how they could claim a band heater could ignite the reaction, since they have said it occurs at a few hundred degrees, but the water never exceeds 100C. In fact it's hard to see the purpose of the band heater at all, except to heat the water.
