Terry Blanton <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Maybe they didn't turn on the eCat's input pump until > > then. > > That was my conclusion also. > In other words, there was no steam or water going into the external heat exchanger, so nothing reached the cooling water. The hot water going into the eCat sat there getting hotter and hotter. You would not have seen this with previous tests, where the steam or flowing water went directly through the cell, and could not avoid carrying off heat from the start of the test. This does not mean that all of the heat entering the cell before 18:22 stayed there. Much of it must have radiated away. For Krivit's hypothesis to be correct, the output line would have to stay flat, at zero at the bottom, right up to 15:50. The steam would have to be magically prevented from carrying out any heat; the surface of the reactor would be at room temperature, not radiating anything; the heat exchanger would exchange nothing. Then at 15:50 you would see a tremendous burst of heat. I do not know how the laws of physics would work in this pretend Krivit universe, but I suppose Newton's law of cooling would still be in effect, so the temperature would fall steadily, and it would never increase. It would look like this: https://www.math.duke.edu/education/ccp/materials/diffcalc/ozone/ozone1.html Since the curve does not fall monotonically, but it also rises, we know there must be heat generated in the system. - Jed
