the resistor wire expands with respect to the alumina as it heats up, breaking any bonding contact, or lifting the wire of the inner alumina tube in more and more places and leading to less and less conductive contact - prompting the wire to heat up as more as more of the energy it transmits to the reactor must be via radiation and conduction through gas rather than contact-conduction. This is the likely what makes it appear that there is a gain above 1.
On 16 October 2014 01:13, Alan Fletcher <[email protected]> wrote: > New version with embedded wires. > > http://lenr.qumbu.com/rossi_hotcat_oct2014_141014b.php > > Here I've also assumed that the wires are a simple single strand, rather > than the spiral form used in the earlier tests, and are in good thermal > contact with the Alumina. > >
