Man on Bridges <manonbrid...@aim.com> wrote:
> Statistically each Ecat has it's own independent chance of explosion at any > given moment which does not change over time. > I believe that is incorrect. Boiler explosions are caused by the overall temperatures and pressures of the machine. When a machine made up of several different components -- such as tube boiler or a fission reactor -- the components influence one another. The Fukushima reactor meltdown not caused by one fuel rod uncovered that became too hot. It was caused by all of them uncovered simultaneously. In the Rossi 1 MW reactor, the units are connected. I think they are in series as well as in parallel, which means that hot water or steam will go from one will go to the next, and one will influence the next. I think it would be extremely ill-advised to run this 1 MW unit without first subjecting the individual units to thousands of hours of individual testing at many different laboratories, in national laboratories and corporations. Some experts have told me they feel this reactor as configured is very dangerous. I see no point whatever to running it. Ed Storms suggested to me that Rossi may be having some difficulty coordinating individual reactors to make them work together as a group, and that his purpose is to show that he can do this. If Storms is right, and coordinating them is challenging, I think Rossi should leave this job to someone else. I am certain that experts at corporations such as Mitsubishi or General Electric can solve this problem. No matter how difficult it may be, it is trivial compared to the original problem of inventing the reactor. It is absurd for Rossi to spend his time solving a problem like this, because this is "merely a matter of engineering" -- meaning many other experts in the world can solve this. What he is doing is similar to what the Wright brothers did from 1906 to 1908. They stopped flying airplanes, stopped designing new ones, and concentrated mainly on building better internal combustion engines instead. They were quite good at this. The engines they came up with were among the best around for aviation, with high ratios of power to weight. But there were thousands of experts of internal combustion engines who were better qualified than Wrights, and who could have done a better job. They did do a better job after 1908. In 1906, the Wrights knew *far* more about aerodynamics and the physics of flight than anyone else in the world. They should have concentrated on what they knew best, leaving other details to other experts. It was a waste of time for them to work on engines at that stage in the development. - Jed
