On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mary Yugo <maryyu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> As you well know, the skeptical theory is that the device remained hot >> due to extensive preheating and the storage of energy in either some sort >> of mass such as fire brick heated to high temperature or the melting of a >> comparatively low temperature alloy. >> > > Oh, yes, I know. But that is not a theory. That is preposterous nonsense. > The observers picked the machine up to weigh it. They would have felt it > was hot. There is no such thing as a perfect insulator. > > The heating was done after the weighing. The point is that the total output energy does not convincingly exceed the total input energy.