Once again people have claimed you can release 1 MW with no ill effects in a small facility, without industrial scale ventilation. People should apply some common sense metrics!
Rossi says the facility is 6,500 sq. feet. Conventional heating calls for no more than 20 BTU/sq. ft. in Florida. That's 130,000 BTU. 1 MW is 3,412,142 BTU/h. So that is 26 times more heat than normal heating would supply. More to the point, it would not be thermostatically controlled. It would be turned on continuously. If you turned on 26 times more room heating furnaces than normal, and left them on at full blast, obviously the room would soon be too hot for a person to survive in. If there were large scale ventilation equipment in use, you could release this much heat. If the heat is real, the I.H. expert who insisted on access to the facility would have been able to verify there was a large duct and fan, and he could have measured the air temperature and flow rate using a conventional HVAC anemometer. This would augment the calorimetry performed on the reactor itself. Rossi's calorimetry was abominable, so it needed to be augmented. - Jed
