I bet that the cause of the meltdown in the first test was the stainless steel cover that reduced heat dissipation by convection. In the most resent test, IH decided to run the test without the stainless steel shell cover to increase heat dissipation by convection.
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Alan Fletcher <a...@well.com> wrote: > > So maybe the hotcat wasn't running OUT of fuel at 32 days : it had > completed the Ni isotope conversion (to a greater degree than Rossi > expected), and was then running at peak efficiency? > > Remember the melted hotcat in the first Levi report? > > I wonder if they lost control because it also converted excessive Ni62, > and produced more power than the controller expected? > >
