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- From: logajan@SLEEPY.NETWORK.COM (John Logajan)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: Forest for the trees
- Message-ID: <9207280617.AA08320@sleepy.network.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 06:17:00 GMT
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- Tom Droege writes:
- >The discouraging information is that the effect seems to have gone away or
- >reversed with the shorter interval.
-
- You have a better feel for your data, but it looked like power out was
- increasing. Yes the correlation with in-out disappeared, but so too does
- a flywheel smooth out a steam piston's herky-jerky thrust.
-
- You've lost the on-off signature, but what of your net power out?
-
- > Perhaps there is a time lag. But one as long as indicated boggles the
- > synapses.
-
- Doesn't the whole concept? :-) You mentioned a possible time lag effect
- *before* you switched to shorter cycles, so at least it isn't totally
- an after the fact explanation.
-
- -- John Logajan
-