Something we don't often consider:
*From an engineering perspective, if you need careful calorimetry to
determine whether your generator works, then it really doesn't matter
whether it works. Its output is so small as to be irrelevant.*
A device producing a megawatt of heat energy should not require careful
calorimetry to determine whether it works.
*
**The arguments over Rossi's 1 MW device center on the calorimetry.
Therefore the device doesn't work -- if it did there would be no such
arguments.*
I mean, seriously, how hard is it to convert 1 MW of heat output into a
useful quantity of electricity? Run it through a heat exchanger to boil
freon or ammonia or alcohol, drive an engine with that (a bank of
Stirling engines might be a good place to start). Even with 90%
conversion loss you'd be producing 100KW which would be /really/ easy to
measure! (Volts times amps, you're done.)
(If it were ready for prime time, a Viking engine
<http://www.vdg.no/index.php?articleid=8> might be a great choice, but I
don't think they're shipping yet.)
The demo was not conclusive. For a 1 MW heat generator, that's the same
as saying it flat-out doesn't work. Producing an inconclusive demo of
such a device, /if it worked/, would require an impossible level of
incompetence.
