On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mary Yugo wrote: > > I suggest they start by asking him why he and Focardi are freezing their > buns off in a room in which a running fusion reactor is present, supposedly > making 10 to 15 kW of thermal energy. > > > That reactor produced 5 to 8 kW, not 15 kW. It was in a large, drafty > room. 8 kW = 27,000 BTU/h which is nowhere near enough to heat a large > room. It is about the same as a kerosene heater such as this one: > It's not a barn, it's a small room. I heat a small garage with a 1.875 kW quartz tube vertical heater and it does just fine. In a room about 12 x 18 feet, with a standard ceiling, I can get a delta T of better than 10 degrees C which really makes a difference. It takes a bit of time is all. And close to the heater, it's actually too warm for comfort. They supposedly had about three times that power or more depending what you read -- plenty to warm the cockles of their hearts. Except clearly, it didn't.
