Nice to see a polite discussion that reaches agreements... On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 7:56 AM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote:
Ooops... my intuition screwed up on this one: > > Since the effective specific heat does not remain constant with > temperature -- there is a discontinuous rise at the boiling point -- there > is a dramatic rise in the effective heat transport with temperature at the > boiling point (whatever it is for the pressure in the reaction vessel). > > That's all that's required for temperature control. Rossi's effort > required to achieve self-sustained mode then would have been to ensure that > the flow rate around the reactor vessel was in the range where it is low > enough not to quench the reaction in the 1deg/gm/calorie regime, but high > enough that in the regime where its some huge number the reactor reaches an > equilibrium with the heat transport. > > I plead lack of sleep. >
