On 11-06-19 06:44 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote:
In reply to Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:02:22 -0400:
Hi,
[snip]
If the effluent isn't flowing, however, the
temperature rise is limited only by the need to heat the thermal mass of
the device, which is fixed.
The "linearity" argument is very far from conclusive, of course, but
it's one more thing that bothers me.
If one were trying to reach the operating temperature of the device, wouldn't it
make sense to have no water flowing until it was reached (or at least close)?
Yes, it would.
AFAIK that wasn't done, however -- certainly no mention has ever been
made of turning on the pump *after* the thing had achieved criticality.
