Joshua Cude <joshua.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The professors tested and calibrated this machine for 6 weeks. They would >> have discovered that it has a large hidden thermal mass. > > > They did. It takes 30 minutes to bring the temperature up to the level > needed to deliver water at 100C. > They reportedly had difficulty turning on the excess heat in that run. It would never have risen to 100 deg C without excess heat. My point about the calibrations may be unclear. When you calibrate a system like this, turning on the electric heater only without hydrogen in the nickel, and in various other tests, the presence of a large thermal mass would be revealed. > Whatever. My suspicions do not require any of that. Just some thermal mass > inside that giant tin-foil phallus. > That's funny! Phallus indeed. As I said, the calibration would reveal that. People experienced in flow calorimetry would see it easily. - Jed
