Jed was talking in watts, W ~ T^4, T is the fourth root of W so it is logarithmic not exponential in your jargon.
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > *From:* Jed > > > > The calibration was done at 486 W and and then the cell was run at 790 W > for two days. That seems reasonably close to me. The temperature should > have been about the same. I cannot imagine any mechanism that would make it > go so much higher, other than anomalous excess heat. > > > > Geeze you are sounding almost as bad as Levi - in not seeing the obvious > ... “about the same” is absurd, given what happens later. The difference > between 486 and 790 is enormous when the delta-T is being raised by a > formula which includes a fourth power (Stefan–Boltzmann law) > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%E2%80%93Boltzmann_law > > > > look at the graph on this page !! small change in temperature (based on > emissivity) are increased exponentially. Now we know that those changes > could have been influenced by the photon output of the resistance wires. > > > > The is no evidence of gain in the way this was done and Levi should have > known that from before ! > > > > Jones > > >
