That explanation is completely faulty. Did the visible spectrum escape the calorimeter? If not, it was all converted to heat and should have been measured.
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 10:24 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > How about this... > > The calorimeter only measures the heat (infrared portion of the emission > spectrum). The visible and EUV portion of the emissions spectrum carry the > majority of the reaction energy. > > There is the plasma blast energy that is lost which could be substantial. > The majority of the energy produced by this sort of reaction is the energy > carried by the electrons liberated by the plasma and also contributed by > the electric arc, It is a mistake of the first order to waste the energy > content of these electrons. > >
