On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 9:16 AM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote:
So if we're looking for errors in power measurement, we need to be most > concerned about frequencies below the IR. The problem for those of us who > want to find error in the measure is that the peak is in the camera's > physical sensor bandwidth where we aren't extrapolating -- and the most > likely source of error is in an area of the spectrum that not only has > lower luminosity but lower energy per photon. > I believe Lubos Motl proposed somewhere that the E-Cat HT surface is not well-approximated by a blackbody and that the true emissivity is likely to be T^(4+d), where 0 < d < 1; i.e., that in the worst case scenario there will be ~T^5 relationship between temperature and power rather than T^4. I do not know what to make of this (assuming I have accurately reproduced the details). Eric
