Jouni Valkonen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The 15 minute heat-after-death event was with the large eCat used in the > > January and February tests. . . . > > > Ah, now I know exactly what is going on. > > Here is the premilinary report (Test1): > > http://22passi.blogspot.com/2011/01/report-ufficiale-esperimento-della.html?m=1 Ah, of course. It was sitting in plain sight the whole time. Another copy of this report can be found here: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/LeviGreportonhe.pdf Quoting the report: "Before ending [Test1] all the power was reduced and then switched off from the resistors and also the hydrogen supply was closed. No pressure decrease was noted in the H2 bottle. Even in this conditions the system kept running self sustaining, for about 15 minutes until it was decided to manually stop the reaction by cooling the reactor using a large water flux (note the decrease of the water input temperature). . . ." "Self sustaining" is another way of saying "heat after death." it is a better way to describe this event. Note that they turned off the cell by increasing the water flux (flow), lowering the temperature. If, as some people here suggest, the eCat sometimes overflows inside, the temperature will fall and this will probably quench the reaction. In other words, overflowing water will not only lower the water temperature temperature noticeably, it will also clobber the reaction, lowering it even more. So you can monitor the temperature to be sure steam is being produced. The fact that the cold fusion reaction responds to temperature was first noted by Fleischmann, I believe. Fleischmann's boil off events were triggered by raising the temperature for about 5 min. with intense electrolysis. This caused a feedback loop where the reaction increased, which increased the temperature, which increased the reaction. After boiling began, the electrolyte level fell until the connection between the anode and cathode was broken, and all electrolysis ceased. Heat generation continued after that, sometimes for hours. In the term "heat after death," "death" refers to the end of the electrolysis reaction. Since there is no ongoing chemical reaction in the Rossi cell, but only heating power, this term is inaccurate. I use it out of force of habit and because there are many papers in the LENR-CANR.org referring to the term. If you want to find out more about it look up "heat after death." - Jed
