I find it a little disappointing, that Defkalion are not going to use flow calorimetry for their demos. Their choice of course. It is a bit hard to understand their test procedure, they specify a "Bare" hyperion reactor but what that means is unclear, it also sounds like they are not using a coolant - just passive ambient air cooling with an air blower if it starts to overheat (am I misunderstanding them?).
The Public Relations problem with differential thermal calorimetry is that skeptics can still point to the possibility of fraud via variable thermal conductivity between inside and outside of the enclosing box (things as simple as vacuum insulation having gas let into it via remote controlled valve) or other tricks. To me it would seem like flow calorimetry is the easier option given that they have a reactor designed to flow a coolant through it and that could easily heat water in a secondary heat exchanger to allow easily verifiable water heating by any one of the many methods discussed in wake of Rossi's demos last year (so long as we avoid steam!). Pretty hard to fake (or deny) buckets of hot water coming out. It also seems to me that the reaction rate control issues and prevention of thermal run-away would be much trickier without a directly controllable rate of cooling. They must be pretty confident in their understanding and control of the reaction process. On 24 January 2012 08:55, Patrick Ellul <ellulpatr...@gmail.com> wrote: > What is really good is that they want to test it for 96 hours (48+48) > minimum. I think that will give so much more credibility to the invention. > > > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Alain Sepeda <alain.sep...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> since defkalion feel that the COP is above 20, no need to have a >> scientist. >> >> moreover scientist are easy to manipulate (see the books of William >> Broad, *Nicholas Wade)*, so good old tricky engineer would be better. >> if you are really paranoid, a good magician/prestidigitator could be a >> consultant. >> >> but with COP>20, assuming good electric measures (UPS is a good idea >> because it has hard limits in power, if they are of well known model) >> >> >> 2012/1/24 Peter Gluck <peter.gl...@gmail.com> >> >>> I think the best would be an engineer- salesman like the one who had >>> installed my home heater BOSCH 3000W plus a technician specialized >>> in radioactivity measurements for an environment protection State >>> authorithy. >>> >>> A good generator needs NO geniuses to confirm that it works well, I >>> think. >>> >> >> > > > -- > Patrick > > www.tRacePerfect.com > The daily puzzle everyone can finish but not everyone can perfect! > The quickest puzzle ever! > >
