I wrote: I don't know what kind of thermal load the E-Cat can sustain, but I agree > that dropping it into a backyard swimming pool for two weeks until the > water starts boiling would be a pretty good publicity stunt. I don't > actually have a sense how long it would take for the water to boil -- > perhaps a day or two. >
Per Jed's point about the swimmers giving off 450 W, it occurs to me that this is an optimistic estimate. :) I do not think you could boil a backyard pool by somehow submerging nine 100 W bulbs. You'd probably need something giving off an order of magnitude more power. Eric
