On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Harry Veeder <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is like saying that because a theatre gradually filled with > people over two hours it is implausible to believe the same theatre > emptied of people in minutes after a fire alarm. > However it is only implausible based on the assumption there is only > one entrance/exit or the entrance/exit is small. > > It's not really like that at all. In the Rossi scenario, the rate of input powers are known. The input power is 160 kW or so during pre-heat. And it heats up to the level required to transfer 70 kW to the water in 2 hours. During the self-sustain, Rossi claims the input power (from the ecat core) is 470 kW, and it heats up to the level required to transfer the full 470 kW to the water in a few minutes. So, it's more analogous to the theatre filling up gradually over 2 hours with people coming in on average at 10 persons per minute. Then it empties out in 2 minutes with people leaving at 30 persons per minute. It doesn't compute. (If you take account of heat leaving as during the heating process, it becomes even more implausible.)
