Ok, physics-knowledgeable people out there: Who wants to poke holes in this article about a device with extra-ordinary heat generation? It reads funny to me, but I can't pinpoint any actual errors or omissions.
Ok, physics-knowledgeable people out there: Who wants to poke holes in this article <http://arxiv.org/pdf/1305.3913v1> about a device with extra-ordinary heat generation? It reads funny to me, but I can't pinpoint any actual errors or omissions.
Edited to add link that somehow didn't turn up the first time.
Edited to add link that somehow didn't turn up the first time.
Yes he is :)
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It sounds fishy, and there are so many trade secrets in it as to make your skin crawl. But AFAICT they measure the power going into the device, so if we think of the secret devices as some alien black box, doing measurements on it could still be scientific, it seems.
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