Robert Leguillon <[email protected]> wrote:
> You should read the report you cite again. He doesn't ignore that the > reactor remained at boiling temperatures for four hours. He takes it > head-on. Go straight to pages 8 and 9. > I saw that. That is an attempt to explain the Tout thermocouple. It cannot explain palpable heat over the entire surface of the reactor lasting for four hours. That's preposterous! Putting iron or any other material in the walls or around the cell cannot do that for several reasons: 1. Stored energy can only cause the temperature to decline monotonically, very rapidly at first (Newton's law of cooling). Yet this heat increased during the event. 2. You cannot heat the iron around the cell or in the call walls up to 543°C with electric heaters inside the cell. They would have to reach much higher temperatures than any electric heater is capable of. 3. The data shows that the reactor cools in ~40 min. when the power is cut. That is the actual, measured limit of stored heat with this system, at these temperatures and inputs. You cannot magically change it to 4 hours. The data shows a rapid decline in temperature. You cannot magically change that to an increase. Sorry to be harsh, but I took that section on p. 8 as politician-style evasion, along the lines of "we have to say something here, so let's fill in the blank with what we know just ain't so." This analysis cannot be taken seriously. It is full of gaping holes and impossibilities. I realize that Heffner does not see it that way, but I do. - Jed
