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- From: hcbarth@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Bart Bartholomew)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: Naive questions
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.075015.9860@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 07:50:15 GMT
- Organization: The Great Beyond
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- I've already been flamed once, for trying to make a suggestion,
- but I've thicker skin than to let that stop me from jumping
- in again. (Others may find another explaination.)
- In the measurements of excess heat from CNF cells,
- is it customary to consider *past* energy input to the cells
- in the computation?
- For example, it seems to be common to run cells for
- many (sometimes hundreds of) hours before the observation of
- activity. When calculating that a cell is producing more energy
- than is *currently* (no pun intended) being input, do we
- disregard the rather substantial watt-seconds that have led to
- this excess? Can we observe excess heat for enough time to
- pay back the electrical energy used to charge the system and
- still see excess energy output?
- If not, seems like we have invented a new type of
- storage cell that releases heat in unpredicted ways.
- BartB
-
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- "I'll need a sample." "Come again?" "No, once is enough." -Joel to Holling
- If there's one thing I just can't stand, it's intolerance.
- *No One* is responsible for my views, I'm a committee. Please do not
- infer that which I do not imply. hcbarth@afterlife.ncsc.mil
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