> Stored heat can only emerge. It cannot stay hot. It has cool monotonically, >according to Newton's law:
You're burning the last point I held for Rossi (which was that I wondered whether scientists could be fooled so easily - apparently they can). Newton's law would not be violated, of course. If you heat one side of a homogeneous, iron block (or the inside, for that matter) the other side will heat up gradually until the entire thing reaches equilibrium. Overall it will naturally cool from the moment the heat source is removed - but overall cooling is not what's in question. Thermal conductivity of Iron reduces with rising temperature. Combined with an appropriate insulator its easy to build a heat storage system that yields more or less constant temperatures at a particualr point for a long time after the initial heating at another point has stopped. And, as Joshua Cude already pointed out, with water as the cooling medium being the only thing measured, its even easier. It doesn't have to be especially elaborate or even magic. I'm not saying it is, but it can surely be a really cheap trick.
