Rich Murray was quoted by Alan J Fletcher:
5 deg rise in water from input to output thermister -- need to
disconfirm the possibility of a small local heater hidden within the
thermister...
Rich Murray [ never a "pathological skeptic"... -- merely pragmatic ]
REALITY CHECK.
This would not be a "small" local heater. It would be about twice as
large as the largest room air heaters allowed in the U.S. for 120 VAC
plugs. It would the size of a small on-demand tankless water heater,
which is not something you can hide.
There is a photo of one here. These start at 3.0 kW, as shown in the
table below:
http://www.gotankless.com/point-of-use-water-heater.html
Here is the inside of the 3.5 kW model, the Mini-4:
http://www.gotankless.com/stiebel-eltron-mini-4-tankless.html
In real life, given the inefficiency of the heat exchanger you would
need the 5.7 kW Mini-6 unit.
The observers opened up the reactor. Do you seriously believe they might
have overlooked this much hardware? Do you think they failed to see the
10 AWG wiring? These are experienced scientists and engineers. They
recognize electric heaters when they see them.
- Jed
