You see, in thermal engineering, more than the ohm and watt requirement are important. You just haven’t thought big enough, or oversimplified the problem in your head.
***And yet, as simple as things are in my head, none of you skeptopaths will address the energy density hypothetical.
Kevmo:“I don’t think you got it any more than the other guy. He says that 1MW means 1MWH, that it’s a short-handed thing in, well, the coal industry. And all of us should know how the coal industry talks about such short hand because, well, coal used to be delivered by hand to each household or something like that.”
Aqua: It’s you that isn’t getting it. Power systems like generating plants or nuclear reactors are rated for continuous operation. To determine the energy developed by such a system, time MUST BE A FACTOR. Energy without time is instantaneous power, and a absolutely worthless number to have around for a power plant.
***And your point is? This whole thing got started around the lenght of a pulse, and I pointed out that the original article says that “The fuel can be continuously fed into the electrodes to continuously output power. “ You would presume to lecture me on the differences between Volts/bucket-o-coal or some stupid thing over that? It just points out how much of an asshole you are.
Again, power resistors have everything you need to calculate the limit of energy you can ask them to convert to heat and dissipate. This is Joules. Joules.
***So, then your answer to the questin of “Where is the “Joule” setting on your multimeter?” is crickets. There is no Joule setting on the DVMs I’ve used. You can lecture me all you want on the differences between Joules and coal-lump-Volts but it won’t change the fact that your setting on the DVM does not say Joules, it says Watts. I wish it did say Joules, because then at least it would keep assholes from presuming as much as you do.
Why don’t you just go look this term up rather than beating around the proverbial bush?
***Uh, you’re the one who didn’t answer the question. But you continue to move forward in your browbeating attempt to show something that I already showed at the beginning of the thread. Gee, perhaps now you’re getting it, about to realize just how much of an asshole you’ve been shown to be.
Anything related to thermal dissipation of power, deals with Joules. Yes, electrical resistance is in ohms, but the derating values are VERY VERY REAL.
***Ho hum, more browbeating and lecturing from you over something that I showed at the beginning of the thread.
You aren’t going to stop a locomotive with the calculated max watt power resistor for a given resistance. You will melt it down. The resistor has to be able to take the full ENERGY load (which is in Joules) and convert to heat energy.
***More train nerd stuff. Perhaps you think that DVMs should have TrainBraking ratings? And some engineer who has never used such a rating in his life should be expected to do the mental conversion to Watts or whatever in his head?
This is the heart and soul of your problem. You think a press release is a peer-reviewed paper.
The difference between a con man producing a pulse of power for a nanosecond that may contain a milli-joule of actual energy, and then claiming : "but of course we can do this continuously," is the difference between having an actual reactor and having a device which does nothing more than separate ignoramuses from their money.
IF the device can be operated continuously, why has it not been? This is why your ridiculous fallback to the claim that "running the 'reactor' for 20,000 seconds is a 'hypothetical'" is so lame.
Real generators are supposed to run all the time. That's why -- for a real generator -- the difference between a KWH and a KW or a KWs and a KW or a KWY and a KW DON'T MATTER. Because in a typical year, a real generator or reactor will be running all year except for [possibly] short maintenance periods.
For this device the distinction matters because the "inventor" has never produced the slightest proof [and his own bloviating assurances aren't proof] that his machine can produce power for any significant length of time, and why, in this case, quoting "wattage" is part of his con. Absent sustained capability, we are left with the suspicion that he's simply charging capacitors or some other smoke-and-mirrors gimmick that isn't doing anything more than storing the power from the wall for an "impressive" discharge.