Joshua, I waited in anticipation to see if you could help explain to me the errors I might have made in my reasoning. I was astonished to discover that the jest of your replies struck me as being just as much of a "seat-of-the-pants" explanation as you apparently accuse me of doing.
For example: > The air in a furnace also has free rein to exit > immediately, and still it gets hotter. In my view, your counter argument - where you use the heating of air passing through a furnace to make your point, is not an appropriate analogy to use with Rossi's eCat configuration. Heating "air" as it passes through a furnace most certainly gets hot, very quickly so. Thank heavens it does! I live in Wisconsin, and it gets pretty darn cold up here in February. But your analogy doesn't take into account the fact that in Rossi's reactor configuration, the furnace "air" doesn't have to contend with passing a gauntlet of nearby liquid water, which by the very nature of its state can never be above 100C at sea level. > After all the water is converted to steam, > you can't convert any more water into steam. You seem to be implying that there is a point where there might not be any water left in Rossi's reactor core. Where did you come up with that premise? I was always under the impression that there is ALWAYS a supply of water replenishing what has been converted into steam. What's your point? >> This means any converted gas will simply exit >> the reactor core even faster than before. > What it means is that the water is converted to steam > earlier in the ecat. Since all the water is already > converted to steam, it will not move any faster (except > to the extent that it gets hot and expands, which you > argue doesn't happen), but the created steam has to > pass by more of the heated walls of the ecat, and the > heated walls are at a higher temperature. So, it must > get hotter. It was at this point that I arrived at the astonishing realization that any sense of intimidation I might have felt in regards to most of your conjectures was misplaced. How do you come up with a scenario where "all" the H2O in the reactor core would possibly be in the gas state? When does that ever happen? Fresh new water constantly replaces the rapidly expanding & exiting steam. The reactor core is never empty of water. To be honest the terminology I used was a bit clumsy. I should have stated more clearly the fact that as more energy (thermal heat) is presumably generated within the reactor core a higher VOLUME of H2O gas would naturally be produced. This translates to the simple fact of physics where (assuming there is no deliberate containment going on) a higher volume of gas has no choice left but exit the reactor core chamber more quickly than it would do if the reactor core was cooler. Therefore, the rapidly exiting H2O gas doesn't have much time to absorb additional heat from the walls of the reactor core. I've come to the conclusion that it is pointless for me to carry this conversation on any further with you, Joshua. My time is finite, and I have no desire spending it endlessly trying to correct misrepresentations you may have made (intentionally or unintentionally) concerning my POV on the matter. Maybe my conclusions are right, and maybe they aren't. Or maybe I'm only partly right. I dunno. I'm content to wait it out. You think you're right? By all means, remain right, but not on my dime. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
