Alan J Fletcher wrote:
Rossi wrote: 15kg/h here:
http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=510&cpage=20#comment-94236
<http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=510&cpage=20#comment-94236>
That's 4.17 g/s -- Lewan recorded 0.9 (stable) and 1.9 (cool-down).
This is why you need instruments recording flow rates to a computer. The
confusion is permanent. As I said, we shall not get to the bottom of
things like this. How annoying!
I don't think we even know what pump was used (piston? peristaltic) --
it doesn't show in any of the videos.
The pump was shown in some of the videos. It is the same old pump piston
type pump he has been using all along. It was pumping water from a large
garbage can on the floor into the reactor.
Whatever the flow rate was 4.17 or 0.9 . . . It seems the primary loop
flow rate was about the same throughout the test. People have done
spotchecks of the sound of the pump. Assuming this flow rate was stable,
it looks to me like it took maybe two hours to fill the reactor when the
test began. So that means, an hour after the heat after death began,
cold water equal to half the volume of the reservoir would have flowed
into it. That is not to say that of volume of exactly half the original
hot water would be driven out. The cold water mixes as it comes in. It
works like a US domestic water heater, where tap water water flows in as
hot water flows out. In this case it would be like a water heater with
the power turned off. You cannot replace half the volume of a water tank
without the temperature falling. The temperature only falls; it cannot rise.
Bear in mind also that the reactor was not that well insulated and the
surface of it remained at roughly 80°C the entire four hours. Obviously
it was radiating a great deal of heat.
If the primary loop flow rate was increased, the secondary loop would
get warmer for a while, but the flow of incoming Water would increase
and the reservoir would get colder faster.
There is absolutely no way you could have boiling continue in a
reservoir for four hours while tap water flows in and replaces at least
twice the volume of that reservoir.
- Jed
