Joe Catania wrote:
There would appear to be from 17 to 20L of water stored in the E-Cat. It takes ~5MJ to heat 17L of water from 30C to 100C. So it would appear that there are 25MJ stored elsewhere at this point.
Stored somewhere, you say. Where? The metal? There are 80 kg of metal, mainly steel. The specific heat of steel is 0.49 kJ/kg K, so the temperature would have to rise by 638°C. Thing would be radiating heat into the room and burning the insulation and pipes. It is not possible to heat metal this hot with ordinary resistance heaters. The wires would burn. The people in the room would be aware of the fact that the thing was incandescent. That is ignoring heat losses -- which is preposterous. In reality it would have to be well over 1000°C.
Furthermore, it cannot be storing up heat because the overall reaction is exothermic before the 35 minute heat after death event.
If as you say the heat does not balance no doubt that is because the machine radiates a great deal and this is not accounted for. The machine is insulated but no insulation is perfect.
Your hypothesis ruled out. - Jed
