Michael Foster wrote: > Am I the only one on this list to make a limelight? It's pretty easy. Apply > an oxyhydrogen torch to a piece of marble, limestone or sea shell and the > calcium carbonate is converted to calcium oxide on the spot. The resulting > brilliant white light is a really beautiful form of illumination. Too bad > it's impractical for everyday use.
Maybe not impracticable, Michael, especially given the simplicity. Perhaps a "use" or many uses would materialize if indeed there was found to be an excess photon flux anomaly. The bright output of such a light source should be tested using a simple specialty meter against a known incandescent source,for instance. Simply by using a lumen or light meter (less than $100) which are accurate and not complicated by environmental conditions, we would bypass the mystique of proper flow calorimetry. Excess photon emission essentially means that the photon flux times the energy per photon would exceed unity which would be the chemical energy of the hydrogen burning in O2. This would seem to be a feasible way to show net energy gain from limelight - and assuming calcium is a catalyst for formation of dense hydrogen, it could be the easiest way... plus maybe the most convincing... when the goal is to show this kind of anomaly.
