Joshua Cude, As always, I appreciate your incisive, decisive critique of the Rossi team claims -- making the obvious, obvious...
I noticed just now, in my earlier post today, I was confused -- it is the exponential rise and fall of temperature (power) that is a hallmark of ordinary resistors being heated by a constant current being turned on and off -- whereas the E-Cat curves rise and fall almost linearly, possibly indicating a concurrent extra production of anomalous power. How much thermal inertia do the many resistor coils have, in terms of how slowly they rise to peak temperature as the input voltage rises quickly, and how slowly they cool when the input voltage is brought to zero? The tiny 0.3 mass of Ni powder is very little, compared to the mass of the stainless steel cylinder and ceramic cylinder that encloses it within the cage of resistor coils -- so there would be significant thermal inertia -- a design feature that may help produce the almost linear rise and fall of temperature (power). I am keenly interested in this angle of the critical appreciation. Your overall skepticism about all forms of cold fusion is infectious... within the fellowship of service, Rich
