"In a detailed report, two Swedish physicists exclude chemical reactions as the energy source in the Italian ‘energy catalyzer’. The two physicists recently supervised a new test of the device in Bologna, Italy."
"“In some way a new kind of physics is taking place. It’s enigmatic, but probably no new laws of nature are involved. We believe it is possible to explain the process with known laws of nature,” said Hanno Essén, associate professor of theoretical physics and a lecturer at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology and chairman member of the board (chairman until April 2) of the Swedish Skeptics Society."
It would be a useful test if the metering would be done in meaningful way.
Unfortunately the water was flowing into open reservoir during the pre-test
calibration when they calculated the flow rate.
But during the test itself it was flowing directly into the device.
Since device hydrodynamic resistance is different from "open
reservoir" (and can be variable), this measurement can be completely wrong, as anybody who has played with water-pipes know - you bend
the pipe, the flow goes to zero.
A very likely scenario is that when heating causes water
in the thin pipes to boil, the bubble-formation causes
hydrodynamic resistance to increase drastically, causing
water flow to almost stop, which in turn causes much faster
temperature increase.
All of these are consistent with reported observations.
Previous setu for the first 50 people demonstration was just as bad, there was no water flow calibration attempt at all and it was assumed that pump is pumping fixed amount as advertized (so completely open to possible manipulations).
Considering persistent issues with measurements, I think
at this point it is absolutely critical to have a test satisfying these 2 criteria:
1) performed independent company or researcher (with verifiable experience in heating/cooling equipment and calorimetry) and
2) _using only their own calibrated equipment_ making continuous recording off ALL inputs and outputs. All the measuring equipment should be sealed by independent party and not accessible by Rossi.
It is very simple task and on a high-school science project level.
Let me make it even simpler and list it all here:
1) Continuous recording of water in-flow
2) Continuous recording of water in temperature
3) Continuous recording of water out-flow
4) Continuous recording of water out temperature
5) Continuous recording of input current and voltage to
calculate heater power.
6) Test needs to run for 12 hrs to eliminate chemical sources.
All the results should be presented as continuous graphs.
Power of the device will be calculated by integrating the
heat deltas between 1,2 and 3,4 subtracting power of the heater.
Calculation of power is presented both as differential curve (every second) as well as integral curve (total energy). Later is needed
to account for heat capacities of the device.
Note that vaporization is not necessary or desirable as
long as measurements are done with independent entity controlled
equipment. However, with continuous monitoring on input and
output water as I described above some vaporization is not a problem.
Why is it so difficult to make such a simple test properly if we are talking about a earth shattering discovery and with budget of 500k$? Kids in high-schools are doing tests on this levels with 100$ budget. Hell, one kid made an actual hot-fusion reactor...
Search for "Will's Amateur Science and Engineering"
Regards,
Yevgen
