From: Axil Axil Ø
Ø For the weekend inventor, high efficiency induction heating(93 %) is expensive. The cheap equipment is energy wasteful(40 %). Here is cooktop from Amazon which is 84% efficient for about $60. http://www.amazon.com/Nesco-PIC-14-Portable-Induction-1500-Watt/dp/B007B64O0S/ref=sr_1_1?s=home-garden <http://www.amazon.com/Nesco-PIC-14-Portable-Induction-1500-Watt/dp/B007B64O0S/ref=sr_1_1?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1434225478&sr=1-1&keywords=Nesco+Induction+Cooktop> &ie=UTF8&qid=1434225478&sr=1-1&keywords=Nesco+Induction+Cooktop For this kind of experiment to work with Titanium hydride and a cooktop, one would no doubt need much more mass of material than a few grams – possibly a few hundred grams in a ceramic crucible with a top – that much could be needed to achieve the equivalent of a shorted single turn. But TiH2 is cheap. Another advantage is that a simple boil-off calorimeter setup is easy to imagine on a cooktop.
