On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree there may have been some liquid flowing through at times, but > Lewan performed Method 2 after a very large burst of heat, and he found the > flow rate was much lower than the flow rate going into the reactor. > Therefore the reactor water level was low and the vessel was filling up. > All of the water coming out of the heat exchanger hose at that time was > condensed from steam. > You don't know any of that. There was steam and mist coming out of the hose, both at unknown flow rates. All Lewan measured was the collected water over a period of time. > > If they had measured the flow rate constantly with two precision flow > meters (for the inlet and outlet) they might have found something like > that, where the overall flow coming out was higher than the flow coming in. > > Yes. Wouldn't it be nice if things were actually measured. But Rossi doesn't allow us near the tree of knowledge. That would not serve his purpose.