On Dec 22, 2011, at 7:29 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Mary Yugo <maryyu...@gmail.com> wrote:
Am I to assume you examined the mathematical modeling and resulting
curves in the links I provided and have analyzed and rejected them
for some good reason?
Yes. I have seen blacksmiths at work. I have seen one heat a large
chunk of iron, as big as the reactor core, to red hot
incandescence. This is hotter than an electric heater could make
the core. The iron is dunked into a bucket of water. This produces
a cloud of steam, and then rapid boiling for a minute or two. It
does not cause the bucket of water to boil for four hours. There is
no conceivable way to store that much heat in this much iron.
You can verify that with a small-scale experiment. Try heating a
nail and putting it in water.
I seriously suggest people should try this. Why not? a skeptic who
sincerely believes it is possible to achieve this effect by
conventional means should do some simple tests to confirm that.
Evidently the mathematical modeling is wrong. I do not have to
determine the details when it is obvious the conclusions conflict
with everyday experience and fundamental observational physics to
this extent. If someone makes a mathematical model showing that I
can jump over the Empire State building I do not need to prove it
is wrong.
Note that "Rossi" means "Smith." Perhaps he comes from a long line
of blacksmiths. He has the kind of intuitive skills that a good
blacksmith has.
People have been working with hot iron for thousands of years. They
know how it works. I know how it works. All the skeptical
hypotheses that attempt to explain these test contradict knowledge
going back hundreds of thousands of years.
- Jed
The heat capacity of a conductor like iron is only useful for storing
energy. Insulation is required to limit the rate of dissipation of
that energy. A medium, or combined layers, with a net low
diffusivity, using materials like ceramics, cement, fire brick, etc.
is necessary for significant dynamic effects, like peak heat release
long after the source was applied.
Those are the purely passive considerations. If good insulation is
present, as well as active control, heat can be released to meet any
demand curve that conserves energy.
Apparently commenting further is of no use, so I'll try to refrain.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
