> From: "H Veeder" <hveeder...@gmail.com> > Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 2:49:37 PM
> Irrespective of fraud, he is technically right. We don't know what > the temperature is at the centre of the Ecat. The production of > energy and the transformation of the energy into heat do not have to > occur in the same place. For example if a bristle brush is spun > inside a tube the walls the tube will get hot from friction but the > heat is not flowing from the centre of the brush. > > Harry Not right, because it doesn't matter for a black box test. There's only one place for the heat to get OUT -- the surface. I've nearly finished my Spice thermal simulation with actual material values (as far as I have them). If the thermalization is on the nickel powder ... then things are complicated : will the powder melt? But once the heat gets to the inner steel cylinder, there's very little temperature drop to the outside, because Corundum has almost the same (or greater!) thermal conductivity as steel. (I'm not sure it IS solid corundum ... one of the little details missing from the paper).
