Mary Yugo wrote:
Rossi is not dumping a preheated steel mass into a bucket of water. He's insulating it very carefully and trickling water through it at a very modest rate. I've always been struck at the low and hesitant flow from his pumps. Click... click..........click...... And the flow measurements are not impressive.
It does not matter what rate you add the heat. The flow rate of the water is unimportant. It might be stopped altogether.
It takes a certain amount of energy to keep the surface of the reactor at 80°C for four hours. That amount of energy far exceeds the amount that you could store or add to that mass of water and iron, using this equipment. Whether you heat it slow or fast, or heat it beforehand and hide the hot body it makes no difference. Whether the reactor holds mostly iron or mostly water makes no difference. No combination of these materials, insulation, flow rates or power levels can possible keep the surface temperature so high for so long.
If you use other equipment that allowed the temperature internally to go up to thousands of degrees perhaps it could work.
- Jed
