Michele Comitini wrote:
As I have said here, flow meters tend to be a pain in the butt.
A water tank where to put outgoing water and get volume by measuring
height. I don't think he would have
many more problems with mass/volume water in liquid phase than he has
with steam...
At high power a tank fills up quickly. You have to keep measuring it and
dumping it. You could not do this for a test lasting hours or days. You
might take a sample every hour and extrapolate. In most case the flow
rate will remain fairly stable. But this is not a good method. (There's
that Japanese word again! This would be "iikagen.")
You need a flow meter to do this right. In the 18-hour test they
reportedly did use a flow meter. I asked them what make and model. They
never responded so I did not include this detail in my description.
It is annoying that they did not respond. They reportedly used a
conventional, off-the-shelf analog meter such as the water meter at your
house. These things cost ~$50 and they are perfectly suited to this flow
rate and volume. If they had just provided a few more solid details such
as the make and model of the flow meter, the exact temperature of the
tap water, and a graph of the inlet and outlet temperatures, the 18-hour
test report would be a lot more convincing.
I asked for more information, but only once or twice. I did not press
the issue. As I see it, it is not my job to make their case for them. If
they don't want to publish a convincing account of their work, that's
their problem, not mine. I am pleased to assist people writing and
editing papers when they ask me to. But LENR-CANR.org is a library, not
a journal. I do not take sides. I do not endorse claims. I am as neutral
as I can bring myself to be.
LENR-CANR is nothing like Krivit's "New Energy Times" where he campaigns
in favor of a theory or tries to make researchers he disagrees with such
as McKubre look bad, with preposterous accusations. There are several
researchers in this field that I personally think are nitwits. A few I
suspect may be liars, and one or two seem to have a screw loose. But I
would not name names or make accusations. I guess if I suspected Rossi
and Levi are lying I would not upload the data from their tests. I would
upload whatever papers they provide and let the reader decide.
- Jed
