The temperature control system doesn't necessarily have to sense right at the reactor. It can take any output measurement that has a reasonably short time constant.
The problem is that if there is no such control system, then the reactor has to destroy itself (presuming the truth of Rossi's repeated assertions that reaction rate increases with temperature). On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Joshua Cude <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:05 AM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This doesn't apply to the reaction chamber itself if we presume Rossi's >> temperature-enhanced reaction rate is in play there. > > > That's true, but then we don't know that the temperature there is > well-regulated. There is no evidence the temperature in the reactor is even > measured, but if it is, it is not reported. That would of course be very > useful information, because it would have a very direct relationship to the > power transferred to the water: if the claims of complete vaporization > within minutes of the onset of boiling were true, we should see a very > rapid increase in the core temperature just when boiling starts. >
