Mary, I'm looking into cooling, it won't be finished for the first version though. You can't just stick the reactor in a bath as the top and bottem of the reactor have things (eg electrical wires) sticking out from them. My plan is to use a 'springy' kind of copper tube coil, that sids around the middle of the reactor. Haven't looked into 'springy' copper tube though,.. suggestions are welcome. Specific suggestions for a pump, flowmeter and water temperature sensors are welcome too.
As long as we don't attain tremendous fusion power I think cooling at the air will be sufficient. Cheers, Bastiaan. On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Mary Yugo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Bastiaan, > > How to you remove the heat? > > Why don't you use a liquid coolant in a jacket surrounding the cell -- like > Rossi seems to do? That would accomplish reasonably accurate calorimetry > for you "automatically" with nothing more than a flow meter, two > thermometers, a known electrical power source.for calibration, and a > computer/data logger. All of those are cheap and easy these days. > > If you don't want to complicate the system, you don't need the coolant > jacket -- you can run the device in a well insulated water bath. > Calibration will compensate for any losses from the bath.
