Despite the shortcomings of the experimental setup, I would have thought
it should be possible to use dataplots such as these to characterise the
thermal characteristics of the a dummy hyperion system providing we know
the power input. This should give usable figures for heat capacities
and thermal couplings.
This could then be used to give an indication of the excess heat from
the 'real' reactor, and it should then be possible to give a good
estimation of the error range of any results obtained this way. I seem
to remember that Mary Yugo(?) got someone to do something along these
lines with a previous set of data.
Some of the uncertainty would be removed if the two runs were done with
the same reactor, first with the Ni/H in the reactor, and then second
with a dummy powder with approximately the same thermal capacity. The
electrical heat input in the second run should mirror the heat input
that was used for the first run.
If we there are two reactors, then doing a real test on both and then a
dummy test on both would be even better as it might allow additional
quantification of the errors.
Nigel
On 30/01/2012 15:01, Jones Beene wrote:
What is curious is the chart on the laptop. Blow it up. Of course, we do not
know what it purports to show, but the two spikes are indicative of what
have been known to appear in many early H2 fractional hydrogen experiments
in the past.
Jones
