People who are convinced that Rossi's recent test did not display any signs of anomalous energy should do the following test.
Materials: an 8 gallon (30 L) pot; a thermocouple or thermometer; insulating material; some buckets; a logbook. 1. Fill the pot with 8 gallons (30 L) of water. If you wish to simulate the thermal mass of the 100 kg metal reactor, and the pot is big enough, you can add an extra 2 gallons. I do not think that is necessary. 2. Boil the water on the stove. Make a note of how long it takes to boil. 3. Take the pot off the stove, insert the thermocouple into the water, and wrap the pot in insulation, including the top and bottom. Rossi's reactor is not very well insulated because the outer surface is hot. You can use better insulation if you like. 4. Log the temperatures every 10 min. Note carefully whether the temperature ever rises, in violation of the second law of thermodynamics. 5. Every 15 min., open the top briefly. Remove 1 gallon of water (4 L), and pour in 1 gallon of tap water. If you do not have a thermocouple, use the thermometer to measure the temperature of the water removed from the pot. After four hours you will have replaced twice the volume of water in the pot, in stages. 6. After four hours, note carefully whether you observe the following, which is what observers saw with Rossi's reactor: * Is the water still boiling hot, or has it cooled? * Is the reactor surface still very hot to the touch, and are some metal components so hot that if you touch them, you jump back in pain? The video shows that toward the end of the test one of the observers accidentally touched a metal surface and was burned. * Did you observe any violations of the second law? I expect you will find that the water in the pot is at room temperature. I expect it will be nearly at room temperature after the first hour. Most of the heat will be removed when you remove half the water, and the rest will radiate out. This test shows that Rossi's test provided dramatic and indisputable proof of heat after death. It is regrettable that the instrumentation was poorly placed, and the data was not recorded properly so there is no reliable detailed information about exactly how much anomalous heat was produced. But to deny that heat was produced you would have to predict that in this kitchen simulation the water would still be boiling hot after 4 hours, and metal pot painfully hot to touch. Needless to say, that prediction is physically impossible and utterly ridiculous. If you have any doubts about that whatever, I urge you to try this test. Let me repeat this with emphasis: If you assert there was no evidence for anomalous heat, you are saying that the pot must *still be at boiling temperature at the end of this test*, and that *massive violations of the second law* often occur. Parts of this may sound facetious, such as step 4, but they are not. - Jed
