I am looking at high zoom at the same photos and finding it easy to draw the opposite conclusion. Confirmation bias on both our parts :) I think it is equivocal at best.
On 15 October 2014 19:52, ChemE Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > If you zoom in very closely on the hot reactor photos you can see the the > dark lines are of uniform width, continuity and shade. I am 95% confident > that is the shadow of the coil. The light areas change in brightness, > width, etc. > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 3:56 AM, Robert Lynn < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> how do you know this? How do you know the the wire is not the brightest >> area? >> >> On 15 October 2014 15:06, H Veeder <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Some people suspect that the resistor wire can't be Inconel because they >>> are predicted to melt at the reactor's operating temperature. However, >>> since we know the resistor wire casts a shadow in the alumina, the >>> temperature of the wire remains below the operating temperature and >>> therefore can't melt. >>> >>> Harry >>> >> >> >
