I wrote: Even if you do not check the rate there is chance a variation in the the > flow rate could produce an error large enough to make 30 W look like 4,000 > W. >
Oops. That should be ~300 W, not 30 W. It says: "The electric heater was switched on at 10:25, and the meter reading was 1.5 amperes corresponding to 330 watts for the heating including the power for the instrumentation, about 30 watts. The electric heater thus provides a power of 300 watts to the nickel-hydrogen mixture." So the error would be by a factor of 10, not 133. I think that is still ruled out. - Jed
