I wrote:
> As I mentioned they would instantly recognize a pair of 5 kW electric > heater elements attached to a 10 AWG wire. > I mean two heating elements, each 2.5 kW. The on-demand electric water heaters I have seen always have a pair of heating elements. There is probably a good reason. If Rossi is a cheater it is likely he is not inventive or skillful. Cheaters seldom are. I assume he would simply take the heating elements out of a water heater and use them. It is 100% certain the observers of this test would see that, the moment they open the reactor. As I have said before, trying to fool them with any of the techniques described by Murray and the other skeptics would be like trying to fool me into thinking you speak Japanese. I could tell the moment you say something that you are a fake. This is not strictly an imaginary example, by the way. It did not happen to me, but in the book "Goodby, Darkness" William Manchester describes a soldier who made up a fake language, claimed it was Japanese, and ended up being assigned to teach it to other soldiers. I suppose he was trying to get out of onerous duties. This went on for months until they encountered someone who actually could speak Japanese. Feynman, the book "What Do You Care What Other People Think?," claims that he pretended he could speak Chinese for some reason. He met a woman who really did speak Chinese. He made a monosyllabic sound that seemed like Chinese and she said (as I recall), "that's Mandarin Chinese, which I do not know." That's his story. I don't believe it. I suppose she was being polite. If he had made more than one sound, I am sure she would realized he was kidding. Feynman was something of a faker and a blowhard. - Jed
