Hi Peter, The primary flow is interesting problem. Rossi states 4g/sec which is close to 15 kg/h. The specs of the pump give a maximum of 12kg/h at 1.5 bar so if we believe Rossi then the pump must have been running at maximum volume but then how can we explain the flow rate of the peristaltic pump being increased at 19:08 if it was already at maximum?
Colin On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Peter Heckert <[email protected]>wrote: > Am 22.10.2011 16:32, schrieb Jed Rothwell: > > This discussion about "close contact to the metal" and "chemogalvanic or > electroosmotic voltages" is blather. I am sorry to be harsh, but it is > irrelevant, evasive, nitpicking blather. > > It is not. > Put 2 identical copper electrodes in water. Heat one, and the other not. > You get a voltage and a current between the electrodes. > (Thermal electroosmose) > When I was young I tried to make an chemothermical energy source from this > effect. > With Rossis setup there was unequally heated water, aluminim, brass, nickel > and chromenickel in contact. > If the thermolement has 1 Ohm inner resistance then you get an error of 1° > C with a current of 40 µA. > The problem is, a current can flow from 1 thermoelement into the other, > because they where interconnectet. > > > You could pull the thermocouples out and throw them in the trash and we > would STILL be ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN THERE WAS ANOMALOUS HEAT. The thermocuples > could be completely wrong in every respect -- the numbers might be painted > on the meter screen! -- but the result would still be compelling. Forget > about the thermocouples! Forget about using a steam mixer instead of heat > exchanger. None of that matters. Focus instead on the fact that water > flowed through the reactor replacing the entire volume of water twice > (approximately), and the reactor was radiating a lot of heat for 4 hours. > Yet it remained too hot to touch right to the end. Without heat generation > it would have fallen to room temperature after 1 hour, never mind 4 hours. > If you dispute that, you do not understand elementary facts about nature > that people have known for thousands of years. > > The problem is, the primary water flow is unknown. Rossi says 4g/s and > Lewan measured 0.9-2g. > > All these unclear points, temperature instabilities and contradictions say, > there are unknown error sources in the measurement. > >
