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- Subject: Re: Better Experiment Now In Progress
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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 06:12:16 GMT
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- In article <920721160021_72240.1256_EHL12-1@CompuServe.COM>, Jed Rothwell <72240.1256@compuserve.com> writes:
- > To: >INTERNET:fusion@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG
- >
- > Tom,
- >
- > I will fax your comments to Takahashi. I think you should talk to him
- > directly to resolve some of these doubts and questions you have raised. Your
- > comments are helpful, but somewhat off the mark. The good news is that he
- > improved his calorimetry, and he has started a second experiment.
- >
- > Let me ask a few questions, based upon my replication of Takahashi's
- > work. If his excess heat is an artifact of the convection loops and so on:
-
- (stuff deleted)
-
- I'm not sure I understand under what conditions Takahasi measures the excess
- heat. Is the 20 minute current sawtooth just used to charge the electrode, or
- is he doing the XS heat measurements during these ramps? I would have thought it
- very hard to do such a measurement because the calorimeter never reaches the
- steady state - i.e. temp always lagging behind the power somewhat. I notice that
- this is not a problem for McKubre because he always runs at constant power,
- backing of the heater power as the current is ramped. So what does the "high
- low" operation refer to exactly?
-
-
- As for the earlier thread on Murphy Brown and Dan Quayle, we have in fact heard
- of them in Australia. The former is, I believe, an important media person,
- the latter is some actor who plays the part of a half-witted Vice-President in
- some American sit-com. I hope I've got this right...
-
-
- todd green
-
-