On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Mary Yugo <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >> 130 kWs of heat coming from something the size of a small door knob is >> really scary. No chemical source that I know of could have done that. >> > > Or perhaps the flow measurement was in error -- a liter per second is a > lot of water. Or maybe the thermocouples were measuring the temperature of the ecat housing, instead of the water. The 130 kW is not plausible from simple considerations. Rossi has claimed different core temperatures, but it's difficult to imagine it very much less than about 400C during ordinary 12 kW operation (of the Jan/Feb ecat). Then, to increase the power delivered by a factor of 10 would require an increase in temperature difference between the water and the heater by a factor of 10, and that would take it well above the melting point of any metals in the ecat.
