I wrote:
> If I were trying to do calorimetry based on the difference between the > cooling water and the air, the answer would be inaccurate to the point of > being useless. Fortunately, I need only compare the cooling water at the > start of the test to the end of the test. > We did, in fact, try to do calorimetry based on the difference between the cooling water and the air, and the reactor surface and the air. It was extremely inaccurate. That is why we went to this method instead. The results from the previous methods do indicate excess heat but the error margin is huge. That was with much higher input power. The reactor metal was exposed and it was too hot to touch in some cases. The results indicate that output power was also high -- much higher than now -- but with such a larger error margin I have no confidence in the results. It is better to get a small result with a high signal-to-noise ratio that a huge result which is plus/minus ~30%. - Jed
