Tomclarke wrote:
Reactor surface (claimed) temperature, for several days 1400C at 2.8kW flux, Al2O3 heat capacity, cylinder 4mm ID/ 20mm OD heat difference is 200C So temperature of powder must be 1600C continuous at least - more if thermal conductivity to Al2O3 is not large. T = P*ln(d1/d2)/(2*pi*L*k) where k is the thermal conductivity, d1,d2 are outer and inner cylinder diameters, L is length of cylinder, T is temperature difference. The melting point of pure nickel is 1455C. Any admixture of other elements decreases this. So if the claims here are correct all nickel grains in ash should be melted. Axil wrote: This is good grist for deductive reasoning. If this condition did exist then…. This is what leads me to the suspect that the heat flow is isothermal: caused by superfuildity through the auspices of a boson condensate in which the infrared photons produced by the reactor participate. Having condensed, all the photons are at the same energy level thus resulting in a singular wavelength. Any new energy input into the condensate is shared equally among the members of the condensate providing a unitary thermal state. This is part of the gamma thermalization process.
