So, you believe the issue is settled by the use of flow calorimetry (hopefully you mean without phase change). ----- Original Message ----- From: Jed Rothwell To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 12:49 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:The Percolator Effect
Joe Catania wrote: I'm suggesting what I believe many others have. What should be eliminated is complications like anything flowing, anything shanging phase, heat leakage. Phase changes are a problem, although ice calorimetry has been around for a long time. The only kind of calorimetry that happens without heat leakage is bomb calorimetry, which can only be done for brief reactions or it explodes (hence the name). If we have a well characterized vessel (i.e. we know heat conduction properties well we can use it to contain the reaction. Then we might be able to charcterize heat flow from it better. This might also be done by solding the vessel in a vacuum and measuring the IR spectrum to characterize radiation. I do not see how this would be any better than flow calorimetry, which is what Defkalion uses, and what Levi did in the 18-hour test. For a kilowatt-scale reaction I think that is the best method. - Jed