2011/9/14 Horace Heffner <hheff...@mtaonline.net>: > I have to wonder if anyone associated with Rossi ever > going to actually do calorimetry on the output?
I will do it soon. Actually I am right now writing it. There are plenty of ways to do calorimetry. Not all ways are written in the engineer's manual. > Sticking the one and only output measuring thermometer down inside the > device is still as useless as ever for calorimetry purposes. Untrue. > It likely is > directly heated by its metal surroundings. The water pulsing out of the > device is clearly not 130°C. What is likely indirectly being measured by > the thermometer is the build-up of temperature in the large masses of lead, > and copper, etc. within the insulation. Water contains most of the thermal mass, therefore metal temperature is the same as water temperature. I suggest for you to toy around with autoclave. E-Cat behaves here exactly like autoclave. Pay especially attention when they opened the pressure valve and released 121°C water out of the E-Cat. If you have ever operated autoclave you will find this feeling very familiar. There is just something fascinating in high pressure steam. –Jouni
