Blaze Spinnaker <[email protected]> wrote: My favorite approach is simply using a pre-filled closed flow system and > melting a large pre-specified weight of ice into water. It wouldn't > require much expertise from your 3rd party witnesses (just have to weigh > the ice, make sure it's actually h20, etc) and you could select people more > for their credibility than their technical know-how. >
This is called ice calorimetry, or phase change calorimetry. It was developed by Lavoisier in the 1780s. Shell Oil used a calorimeter very similar to Lavoisier's instrument. See: http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/DufourJasimplecal.pdf > Flow rate, water pressure, water sources, all of that nonsense goes away. > But other problems arise. Every method has pros and cons. I prefer Seebeck calorimetry, although it is expensive. - Jed
