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.

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