On Sep 16, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Jouni Valkonen wrote:
2011/9/17 Horace Heffner <[email protected]>:
A heat exchange system can be very accurate. The advantage is it
does not
matter what happens to the cooling water beyond the bounds where the
thermometers are located, provided it comes back cool enough and
with enough
flow to do the job. To obtain an accurate power integration takes an
accurate flow meter in the cooling water stream with time stamped
data taken
frequently. There is a similar requirement to frequently measure the
temperature and flow output of the E-cat water from the heat
exchanger.
Some good insulation is required for accurate data - but reliable
data only
accurate to 10% would hopefully be way more than enough to show
the value
Too bad, Rossi's method was way better, because it can give,
especially with this new version, much higher accuracy with much less
efforts. Calibration of this system alone will take days!
Hundreds of man days have been wasted. If the job were done right
the first time a lot of labor and money could have been saved, not
only for Rossi and his associates, but for Rossi himself. Not only
that, very high quality and credible black box calorimetry might have
been obtained absolutely free from companies like EarthTech
International:
http://www.earthtech.org/
What a waste! There is no common sense in what has happened. There
is no good business sense in what happened. What has happened makes
no scientific sense either. Rossi could have had millions or
billions of development dollars at his disposal with a single high
quality public demonstration. If he really is on to something
commercially viable then the whole world is suffering because of the
delays. This kind of thinking that a few days or even months of
calibration is not hugely worthwhile is nonsense. It is perhaps
penny wise, but trillion dollar foolish, unless of course, someone
knows there is nothing to the claims.
Only thing, what was required, was that people understand the concept
of steam pressure. Since people do not usually have experience from
autoclaves, espresso machines and Fukushima's water boilers, they
might have hard time to understand how it is possible that steam
cleaner produces 110°C steam. I wonder if there is a heat exchanger
that superheats the steam?!
Anyway there was nothing wrong with the method, but independent
scientists just could not come up with the idea that it is possible to
do steam sparging calorimetry and measure the liquid water content of
outlet with simple water trap.
–Jouni
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
