This morning I found a link that may be related to the borax and nickels thing: http://www.sparkbangbuzz.com/els/borax-el.htm
I found it, believe it or not, here: http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-159040.html I had thought mods generally ban CF/LENR topics there, but I guess not completely, or at least not completely back in 2007. (There's a mod comment about this at the end of the thread.) Jeff On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jack Cole <jcol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> A temperature change of 60F for 3.718 oz requires the following BTUs. >> >> 3.178 oz / 16 oz = .199 >> > > Yikes. I recommend you use SI (metric) units: joules, grams, degrees > Celsius etc. Remember why NASA crashed a rocket into Mars. > > http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~gtan/bug/localCopies/marsOrbiter > > "Engineers on the ground calculated the size of the rocket firing using > feet-per-second of thrust, a value based on the English measure of feet and > inches. However, the spacecraft computer interpreted the instructions in > Newtons-per-second, a metric measure of thrust. The difference is 4.4 feet > per second. . . ." > > - Jed > >
