On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Harry Veeder <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Joshua Cude <joshua.c...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > So, if you trust the reported *measurements*, then they are consistent > with > > no excess energy at all. You have to trust their *assumptions* to get a > lot > > of excess energy. And their assumptions are highly implausible, because > they > > require (1) a discontinuous, eightfold increase in the power transfer > within > > a few minutes, and (2) an output power transfer that is stable to within > a > > per cent or two. > > If this is "highly implausible", then so is a lever. > > Please explain the connection. Discontinuously increasing the temperature of a large thermal mass is nothing like a lever.