Joe Catania wrote:
There certainly are facts involved namely could the boiling be caused
by the heat stored in the metal, etc. of the E-Cat to last 15 minutes.
Facts. Hmmmm. . . . Okay then, tell us:
How much metal? How hot did it get? Assume 3 kWh are stored, enough to
vaporize 4.4 kg of water. Recall that 2 ordinary middle-aged professors
easily lifted the machine and put on a weight scale.
How long would it take to store up this heat with 3 kW maximum input?
That is the most you can input with ordinary wires. Remember your
hypothesis is that there is no anomalous heat, and therefore no input
power after the electricity is turned off. The only source of input
energy is the ordinary wire shown going into the machine, which cannot
conduct more than 3 kW -- which is nowhere near enough to even boil the
water in the first place, but we'll ignore that. We assuming that for
some inexplicable reason their power meter is wrong, and we'll ignore
that, too. Remember also that they were boiling water before the heat
after death, and the temperature was already at the maximum. How did it
manage to store 3 kWh? You have 3 kW input, 12 kW goes to boiling, and
some other power goes to heating the metal to well over 1000°C. Perhaps
you have in mind they vectored the negative 10 kW into antimatter. Your
model seems implausible but as you say, there "certainly are facts" here.
How good would the insulation have to be so keep the metal from cooling
off during this storing-up period? How good do you think the insulation
shown in the photo might be? (Answer: not very.)
Where do you find a conventional joule heater or a wire going into the
device that can withstand such high temperatures? These are ordinary
wires and a machine made of ordinary steel, not nichrome.
Why didn't the 50 people attending the demonstration notice that the
machine was incandescent? Some of them held their hands over it. Some
parts of the machine metal are exposed.
I think you need to work on this model. I suggest you try doing some
tests with hot metal. You can heat a large chunk to incandescence and
then drop it into a pail of water, the way a blacksmith does. Measure
the water temperature. You will find it does not increase much. This
demonstrate the tremendous difference between the specific heat of water
and metal. Just bringing the water up to boiling temperature would take
far more metal than this device has. Vaporizing it would take hundreds
of kilograms of metal, extremely well insulated.
- Jed
