In the steady state, I don't think the reaction powder will be any cooler than the vessel. If the photons are absorbed in the vessel and the vessel heats, the surrounding vessel will radiate, conduct, and convect heat back to the powder which will drive it to be the same temperature as the surrounding vessel.
I also believe the 3-phase drive could be there to create a linear moving magnetic field. If there is any plasma inside the reactor vessel (perhaps Li), then the 3-phase drive will cause it to be driven from one end to the other, and in the end cause a convection circulation effect. Such an effect will rapidly equalize the temperature between the powder and inner shell. Don't think of these powders as somehow suspended in the center of the inner reactor tube. It is also likely that at the temperatures above 1000C that there is no active LENR powder that is "free" anymore. This powder probably has sintered itself to the inside of the inner alumina tube, where there will be direct thermally conductive contact - almost like a thick film paste on a substrate. On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:21 AM, H Veeder <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Bob Higgins <rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> Another point has to do with how the heat is conveyed from a LENR >> reaction. Since the LENR reaction is likely a nano-scale event, heat must >> be conveyed from the reaction in a way that doesn't make the NAE the >> hottest spot. Otherwise, none of the reported melt-downs would be possible >> - the NAE would evaporate itself before it could create enough heat to melt >> the macro apparatus. This implies that the heat is conveyed from the NAE >> by photons - not such high energy that they readily escape the reactor, but >> high enough that it can penetrate through a mm or so of the surrounding >> materials (which could be LENR powder), depositing heat as the photons are >> attenuated in penetration. The important take-away is that the NAE cannot >> be the hottest spot - it must heat its surroundings more than itself. >> Given this, it is possible that the heat from the LENR is being absorbed in >> the alumina in a distributed way, causing the LENR powder to be largely the >> same temperature as the surrounding ceramic. I don't believe it is >> necessary or probable that the core must be much higher temperature than >> the shell. >> >> > What you are proposing is the existence of anomalous cooler zone which > conflicts the thermal expectations of law bound scientists. > > Anyway, IMO, if anomalous cool zones exist I think it is more likely they > are able to persist away from the core. >
