On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > He did that! What are you talking about?!? He has made the thing > self-sustain from internally generated heat for 4 hours. > It's not self-sustaining if you have to cycle the input power, and Rossi has admitted that the input power has to be cycled on periodically. > It would have cooled down in 40 min. if it had not been generating heat. > No. When they shut it down, doubled the coolant rate, it took more than 40 minutes to cool down by 10C. And this was after drawing heat of the thermal mass for 3.25 hours. Did you notice the difference between the ecat that could "self-sustain", and the one that did not? About 70 kg more mass, and 8 kW less power. Hmmm. Coincidence?
