If the device was in the 1 to 5 kW range, then a simple hot tub should work. A typical 6 foot spa heats at about 1 degree F per hour at 1 kW. That, some copper tubing coils, and a utility pole meter should be enough. If you really wanted to be sure no extra wiring/power was going into it, perhaps a 1kW gas generator..... I personally think heating two hot tubs side by side - one with a ecat and one with a R would be a fair demo and a fairly good "proof". For smaller units (1 to 100W), perhaps heating a tea pot would be reasonable. So yes, I think it could be "done on the cheap". However, realize Rossi's purpose is not to prove the science. I don't think he is things in the best way, but the science should be done in controlled science labs- The development in a warehouse perhaps heating a pool. People who want proof and science should do their own experiments. Anything else will not be adequate for those purposes. D2
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 11:42:07 -0500 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe... I've seen it claimed by a rather emotionally committed skeptic -- with some background in conducting CF runs with calorimetry -- that an adequate 19th century technology water-bath style calorimetry of the E-Cat HT would cost "a couple hundred bucks maybe...". Obviously if this is true then the $20,000 budget for the E-Cat HT test available to Levi et al (2013) would have been more than adequate. Clearly, if this estimate is accurate then it is easy to understand why a skeptic might get emotionally committed to discounting the report: Why bother issuing such a report unless you were trying to mind-f*ck everyone? Of course, I can come up with any of a variety of plausible explanations for why this "couple hundred bucks" estimate may be way off but then I haven't actually conducted calorimetry on CF runs. So the question is "Did this skeptic get emotional because his estimate is correct or did he come up with his estimate because he was an emotional pseudo-skeptic?"
