1.7Kg of hydrogen means 850mols of H2, or ~20,000 liters of hydrogen, or 20m^3 at 1bar. I guess even at 25 bar, it wouldn't fit in there...
2011/11/23 Jouni Valkonen <[email protected]> > 2011/11/23 Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>: > > > > Weighing the entire tank is an extremely inaccurate method. > > Almost useless. > > > > That is nonsense. They were using precision scale and those are > usually telling the truth. Of course few gram mistakes can occur, like > one did occur in January, when Levi put an adhesive tape to seal the > valve of hydrogen bottle. > > Here however the measured value was 1000 fold too little, because used > amount of hydrogen should have been something in order of 1.7 kg that > was initially reported. Not 1.7 grams. > > I would speculate, that the hydrogen consumption was weighted but > there was not data recorded for before and after values. And later > when writing the report bottle weights were taken just from the > previous Oct 6th report and put there, but of course here was made the > blunder that units were not in kilograms. This is far fetched > speculation, but something like that would make some sense. > > However truthfulness about the figures is just impossible, because > Rossi has made several day private tests with MW-plant before the 28th > demonstration. Idea that he would use different hydrogen bottle for > demonstrations and testing is not plausible. > > –Jouni > > -- Daniel Rocha - RJ [email protected]
