Duncan - Take a look at that power meter. There's a bunch of stuff that could get by it. As we've seen with a certain Fullerton prof., being a decent physicist doesn't mean you grok electrical engineering.
Another advantage of those cooling coils you're suggesting is that some elementary calorimetry can be done. One can never have enough measurements. Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: Duncan Cumming To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 1:58 PM Subject: [Vo]:Levi Hot Cat paper is a gem:cooling coils Hi, guys! This is my first post, Andrew invited me in to the list. I read the Levi et al paper, and I noticed that they measured an input power of around 400 watts and an output power of around 2000 watts. But (for control simplicity reasons) they had no insulation on their tube furnace, and had to keep input power connected so as to keep the reaction going. Why not use an ordinary, properly insulated electric tube furnace fitted with cooling coils on the inside? That way, the input power could be disconnected entirely once the reactor starts to run, and the temperature controlled by the coolant flow. A run of 96 hours producing 2000 watts with no input power would be a lot more convincing to many people. The reason is that, even if the power measurement is inaccurate, the fact that the machine is self sustaining means that some power must be being produced. Probably compressed air in stainless steel coils would be a suitable coolant for this application. I think that a self sustaining reactor running for a few days at a few kW would go a long way towards improving the credibility of this particular device. There is no need to generate electricity, just thermal output without electrical input, only using electrical energy to start the reactor. Duncan Cumming -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Vo]:Levi Hot Cat paper is a gem : power conditioner needed Resent-Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 13:32:49 -0700 (PDT) Resent-From: [email protected] Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 13:33:57 -0700 From: Andrew <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: <[email protected]> I doubt that Rossi would allow a power conditioner, because he himself states that there is some <snip> Andrew
