On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Eric Woudenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Mary, I've also wondered about this but I recall Levi saying in a video > somewhere that Rossi was actually alarmed during this test that the core was > running too hot. > Yes. I heard that too. I have reviewed curve after curve provided by Rossi or people present at his demos and none showed the slightest sign of thermal runaway of any sort. Rossi wraps the small E-cats in a large heater band which can only conduct heat to the metal jacket of the E-cat and just below the metal is the cooling water! He says it's for safety! None of that makes any sense. Rossi also says several E-cats exploded (13 was it?) but he has not one video? And he's not concerned that one he sold might explode? Again: no sense. > My guess is that running it with liquid water ends up leaving the core too > cold to produce much excess heat. Somehow 100c or thereabouts appears to be > the reactor's sweet spot (by accident or design). > Well, didn't you just say Levi's experiment alarmed Rossi by running too hot? With liquid coolant, you can control temperature by varying the flow rate of the coolant which is easily done with a manual or automatic valve or even by varying the pressure head of the fluid by simply raising and lowering the container! It's a snap. I used to do something similar when calibrating calorimeters with liquid coolant jackets. And Rossi has claimed that regulating the hydrogen pressure also controls the reaction. Getting a decent coolant flow and delta T should be very doable with a bit of experimenting. > I'm on board with you that a few well conducted tests by independent > observers would radically change this whole story. > Thanks. > I wonder if Rossi will change his tune on testing if Defkalion starts > conducting public tests. > If Defkalion conducts proper and credible independent testing (which I think is excruciatingly unlikely) then Rossi doesn't matter any more. If a practical cold fusion tabletop reactor is shown by anyone, the world will instantly be changed, Rossi or no Rossi. M. Y.
