From: "David Roberson" <dlrober...@aol.com> Sent: Thursday, November 6, 2014 10:09:13 AM
> I was referr ing to the evidence supporting the claimed COP and not the > usefulness of the steam itself. Accurate measurement of the heat power is the > important issue at hand. Of course the guys calculating the COP must know how > much heat the steam contains. That seems obvious and not needing to be > stated. Still needs to be taken into account. They don't describe the structure of the "boiler". Since they're only aiming for 100C steam the hotcat heater elements are most likely immersed in a tank of water, so they just boil the water and don't super-heat the resulting steam. In that case it's most like a kettle boiler, which will typically (is this situation typical?) generate 95% steam quality. Depending on the application they might not even need "dry" 100C steam. In the original test they just had a simple outlet valve to check that no liquid water was escaping. They probably had that here, too, though it's not described. A real-life steam customer will be happy just seeing some steam vented, with no liquid water running out of the outlet. But it won't satisfy scientists and skeptics. Or the patent office?
