----- Original Message -----
> From: Mark Iverson <zeropo...@charter.net>
> To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
> Cc: 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 9:53:07 PM
> Subject: [Vo]: Possible temperature feedback mechanism???
> 
> Would not the heating element be acting more as a heat SINK when in 
> steady-state?  Actually,
> anything above what the max temp is for the given power into the heater.  If 
> the 
> reactor is
> producing the amount of heat that it SEEMS to be, then the temperature of the 
> Ni 
> and Hydrogen in the
> reactor is way hotter than the internal heater.  Heat will flow from hi to 
> lo, 
> so some of the heat
> from the Ni-H reaction is sinking into the heater. Do we know if this heating 
> element is in contact
> with the water flowing thru; I think it must be? That would enhance its 
> sinking 
> effect.  This may
> represent a sort of 'fine-tuning' that is needed to maintain this 
> thing's stability when operating
> just above the liquid/vapor phase transition...
> 
> What think ye?
> 
> -Mark
>

Rossi has said the internal heater is inside the reactor, but then again that 
is just what he has said.


Harry


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