James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: Hmm.... perhaps but one would think that if the water containers were > covered Styrofoam coolers, the temperature differences might accumulate > sufficiently to render the signal . . .
At that point you are talking about an isoperibolic calorimeter. You might as well go all the way and build a proper one like Mel Miles, Fleischmann or Bockris used. You might put it in a constant temperature bath, such as a fish tank with ping-pong balls floating on top. It has to be calibrated before and after the test, with a joule heater. Dennis Cravens knows how to do that. That would be fine. You can measure 0.25 to 1 W with something like that, with confidence. I prefer the Seebeck calorimeter myself, but it is up to the researcher to decide. - Jed
