Hi Jed, do you know what the temperature of the steam was? I understood you mentioned that Jim said the pressure also rose, but I wonder if it was at air pressure if it might have explained the lack of apparent steam vapour? If the steam was much hotter than 100 deg C at air pressure it would be relatively less dense. Once it entered the atmosphere it would disperse in the air and cool relatively quickly and contract in volume due to the ideal gas law I suppose. If so I suppose any vapour would be quite thin and dispersed and maybe turbulent and be relatively difficult to see compared to steam from a kettle say and not have high velocity high density output such as from a pressure cooker? This is also consistent I think with the video I saw (was it with Steve Krivit?) where a device was being demonstrated. Perhaps I'm wrong I'm not a boiler engineer and only considering it from a Physics point of view and I apologize if I made a wrong assessment there. Perhaps a boiler engineer who deals with high temp steam at air pressure knows better. Could it be they initially thought this was the status so and only later saw higher pressure indicating a blockage which meant terminating the test?
It's interesting that the room was full of steam after they switched off the device this could be consistent with the steam still flowing at air pressure at lower temperature near 100 deg C especially if there was no damage to the device. It seems to imply that the steam was flowing when it cooled and the blockage disappeared at that point? Do you know if the steam was directly from a tank in the device or from an out put from a pipe of a heat exchanger? I wasn't there so don't know what really occurred and can only speculate but I can imagine both sides being frustrated and upset with the situation rather than the people involved if something like that happened especially with so much was at stake. It would be easy to make wrong assumptions about the reactions on both sides in this case. The test and your comments have maybe highlighted something important though. Even devices where pressure is supposed to be low at air pressure might in some contingency case need a safety valve or some other way to automatically shut down incase of blockages or other unexpected behavior etc. This could be important for replicators or other LENR experimenters to bear in mind in future testing. Sent from my iPhone > On 11 May 2016, at 02:04, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > a.ashfield <a.ashfi...@verizon.net> wrote: > >> "No, it was just debris or something. This sort of thing happens with >> experiments." >> >> It would require BOTH the inlet and outlet to be blocked. > > Good point. Maybe it was just a boil-off reactor? I do not know. Jim said the > outlet was blocked so the temperature and pressure were rising. You should > ask him for details. > > - Jed >
