Why would the heat be stored? In especially such a way?
On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Bob Higgins <rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com> wrote: > I saw the picture of the inside of the customer's facility with its big > black box. It caused me to consider the possibility that the heat was > stored. Imagine an immense store of water as big as the entire black box. > If Rossi produced 1 MW of heat continuously, what would the numbers look > like?. > > OK, with 1MW of heat, that would be 8.64E10 joules/day and over the course > of the 350 day test, that would be a total of 3E13 joules. If the room was > filled with water that began at 25C and was heated to 60C over the course > of a year, with good insulation and no heat leakage, that would be 35C of > heating and would require 1.47E5 joules/liter. To absorb all of that heat, > would take a total of 2.1E8 liters of water or 7.2E6 ft^3. So how big was > the black box? Visually I would guess it was it was 100' x 50' x 8' which > is a volume of 4E4 ft^3. This is more than 2 orders of magnitude smaller > volume than would have been required to store all of that heat in water up > to 60C. If this water in the black box were heated to 95C, it wouldn't > change much of anything (only a factor of 2). > > Conclusion would have to be that there was change of state of some large > mass of something to store the heat, or the heat was discharged to outside > the building. >
