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Two heaters. The internal heater makes sense for bringing up the Ni-H to operating temperatures (and, presumably, keep it there). It's the purpose of the external heater that's puzzling. Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 04:06:00 -0500 Subject: Re: [Vo]:New Sergio Focardi interview From: [email protected] To: [email protected] 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.
