Hmm, I wonder if Krivit was really telling the truth and he played tricks on Rossi. On his website, Rossi said that there wasn't an output of 4KW:
http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=497&cpage=9#comment-47686 Dear Marcia Pires: ***4000 kW is a power we never reached.**** The speed in our hoses of course depends on their diameters and on the energy we produce. You can calculate yourself an example: take a 4 kW Cat, means you have about 6 m^3/h (cubic meters per hour), then you make v=q/s, where q is the flow in cubic meters per hour, v is the speed in m/h (= meters per hour), s is the area of the section in m^2 (square meters). The section of the hose is 0.0004 m^2. Your the calculation. (correct answer: 4.166 m/s= four point onehundred sixtysix meters per second, say four meters per second plus something). Of course must be added the expansion due to the Gay-Lussac Law (becomes around 6 m/s in total, depending on the delta T). Warm Regards, A.R.