what's input water vs output water- feed water vs condensed steam? And 1 MW has to used for something...useful. Peter
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Peter Heckert <[email protected]>wrote: > Am 27.08.2011 17:09, schrieb Jed Rothwell: > > Peter Heckert <[email protected]> wrote: > > BTW, there is an elegant method to see if the steam is dry: Dissolve a >> marker substance in the water, salt or sugar or something else. When the >> input concentration is known, the concentration in output water can be >> measured and compared. >> When the steam was dry then the output concentration in condensed water >> must be near zero. >> Pons and Fleischmann used that method. >> > > They did indeed. They had a ready-made marker in the cell: the lithium > salts in the electrolyte. They did this two ways: > > 1. I believe they checked the condensate. If they didn't I recall other > people did, in other boil-off tests. > > 2. They confirmed that nearly all the of the lithium was left in the > cell, washing out the cell and measuring the amount of lithium in the water. > They could not account for a very small amount of lithium that ended up in > the glass of the cell walls. > > You could do this with the Rossi cell but there is no ready made marker. > I guess you could add something to the reservoir. I would use ordinary salt. > Not much, because you don't want to gum up the machine or corrode it. > > They could take samples from the input water and put samples from the > output water and put these to chemical analysis and take their conclusions. > If not purified water is used, then something soluble should be detected > like NaCl traces that allow conclusions. The best, however where, if the > energy is used to do some real reasonable work, like heating a water bath or > a known water stream. The steam could be directly dissipated into the water > instead using a heat excanger, this should be easy to do. > > Peter > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
