On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >> And remember, ... you're the person who thought the Rossi demo of October >> 6 was iron clad. > > > I still do. So do many others. > > > >> It probably did involve some iron (or steel) but hardly was conclusive. >> > > Iron has 10 times lower specific heat than water. It would store less > heat, not more. It could not be heated more than a few hundred degrees with > this equipment, so total heat storage would be less than it would with a > pot of water. > > > Doesn't matter. Heat stored in water is useless to keep water boiling. Heat stored in steel at a much higher temperature can keep water boiling until it cools down to the boiling point of water. Don't you now anything? The comparison of heat capacity to water is irrelevant. What matters is only whether you can store enough heat in the steel at a much higher temperature to account for the observations. It seems, you can.
