Mats and Peter should interview Luca Gamberale, the CTO of Defkalion Europe where the test was done. John is a nice guy, I'm sure, but he's never run a lab / published anything / etc before working at Defkalion. He doesn't even have an advanced degree (he was a middle manager at some health clinics or something and business process consultant, according to his linked in resume).
Luca however, has a PhD with quantum physics from a respectable university and worked in the lab of both a university and a public company for 10+ years and has significant amount of peer reviewed published papers to his name. Who has more to lose if this goes awry? Who's more likely to provide precise, scientifically accurate detail? Why did Luca bow out of the demo at the last second? What does Luca think of all this? That's what I want to know.. On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 6:36 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > They should have sparged the steam to demonstrate the flow rate and total > enthalpy. Better yet, increase the flow to keep the water from boiling away. > > I do not buy the statement by Hadgichristos about the flow rate varying > and the reactor temperature not rising. Where he says, "When coolant is > in dry steam condition, flow is not constant. A pressure barrier within the > coil surrounding the reactor creates flow flactuations . . ." Ed also > pointed out this problem. This is not an adequate response. > > They should do this whole demo over again. They should rehearse beforehand > with a script. They should make sure the third party engineering experts > show up this time. When they finish, they should publish the results on > line. > > It isn't as if there is a rule you can only do a demonstration once. > > - Jed > >
