Wrong, nothing like that mass is necessary.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jouni Valkonen" <jounivalko...@gmail.com>
To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Vo]:E-cat news at Nyteknik
2011/9/14 Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com>:
OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson <svj.orionwo...@gmail.com> wrote:
Meanwhile, Mr. Rothwell replied to your original comment by posting
thermal measurements that apparently reveal the interesting fact that
thermal inertia had already been taken into account when the temperature
initially dropped from 131.9 C down to 123.0 C soon after input power had
been cut off.
Okay, that's probably a typo, as shown in the video. For once Catania is
correct. The temperature did not drop suddenly and then rise. I expect it
did drop soon, given the loss of 2.5 kW input at a flow rate of 185
ml/min.
Indeed that temperature graph is suggesting that thermal inertia could
explain the behavior. This would work, if there is no inlet water
pumped. But as there is pumped about 5 kg of inlet water into E-Cat
during the self-sustaining mode, this would require that there is
metallic thermal mass something like in order of one ton. Of course as
there is lots of water, requirements are not that high, but still
thermal inertia cannot explain the behavior of E-Cat not, by two
orders of magnitude.
–Jouni
