I guess I fell for the word trap without looking at the drawing. What was discussed about the magnetic fields of solenoids is correct, but in this case the resistors appear not to be wound in that form. It is good that you brought that to our attention.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: Alan Fletcher <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, May 31, 2013 10:01 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:new hypothesis to confute regarding input energy in Ecat test > From: "Berke Durak" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 3:52:07 AM > > Good grief. The resistors are coils, presumably helical solenoids with the axis parallel to the reactor cylinder. The magnetic field is near zero outside a solenoid, except at the ends. > The magnetic field outside a solenoid is smaller than inside but not "zero". > The flux lines have to be closed, and thus there is flux outside, and > there is no meaningful lower limit for macroscopic magnetic fields. Levi didn't provide pictures of the resistors, but it's reasonable to assume that they had the same structure as showed by Penon. http://coldfusionnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/105322688-Penon4-1.pdf The resistors are laid inside a "cog-like" pattern of troughs in the outer layer of a ceramic pipe (ie a cylinder with a cylindrical hole). This pattern is what shows as "bands" in the overheated November eCat (positive or negative, depending on your bias). The resister wire itself is clearly straight (not helical) strung down one trough (left to right), across to the next trough and back again in the opposite direction. I don't think this configuration will generate any magnetic field at all.
