If the people at Steorn do put the device into a calorimeter, that
should prove they are right or wrong. As long as the calorimeter is
reasonably accurate and the input power waveform is not too
complicated, it should produce a definite answer. We will have to
give them credit for intellectual honesty. It will be a sincere
effort to resolve the issues. It will overturn the Abd hypothesis.
If they hem and haw, delay, and make excuses that will bolster the
Abd hypothesis.
I wish the Correa's PAGD could be put into a calorimeter. As I
recall, it was too big. Maybe I have confused it with some other
device. You can build a large calorimeter, even one big enough for a
person, but it is imprecise.
In one of his earliest cold fusion experiments, Richard Oriani used a
Seebeck calorimeter designed to hold a baby. It was remarkably
precise. I never saw the instrument, or a photo of it, and I wonder
how the baby survived, since calorimeters are usually airtight. I
vaguely recall he said something like: "the babies were not in there
for long." That can't be right! Maybe he was joking, although he is
not a prankster.
Fleischmann and I are big fans of calorimetry. He often points out
that many of the constants for radioactive decay were originally
established with calorimetry, and so was the proof that radioactivity
cannot be a chemical reaction. That was obvious from qualitative
observation, but they needed a way to prove it quantitatively.
- Jed
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