We've had a bit of fun dreaming up a possible way to SEE LENR on live video footage. Follow along and I'll rationalize. . .

If a nuclear reaction is happening inside these cells, there's got to be a lot of thermal energy. But we're talking about, dare I say it, COLD fusion here and we search for much smaller amounts of excess energy. Maybe the anomalous heat we're all looking for is a macroassebmly of nanoreactions. These localized areas would produce extreme heat commensurate with a nuclear reaction and assemble into controllable and measurable excess heat. 

In v. 10 of JCMNS, David J. Nagel opened the issue with the possible correlation between materials that have exhibited excess heat and craters that have developed on the surface. Though Nagel could not make any solid conclusions for or against this proposition, it got us to thinking. We can't comment if this idea is valid or not, but we think we have a way to get us going in the right direction. 

It's not as difficult as it may sound, and it actually doesn't involve a thermal camera. Thermal cameras are costly and can't even see through glass, making the prospect of looking at the metal surface in our reactors impossible. That's where all the action is and that's exactly what we CAN'T see (thermally, of course). 

Turns out that Paul knows a thing or two about black body radiation, and also knows a lot of things about electronic devices. So we grabbed a webcam and got to a google hangout not to see people, to see infrared radiation. 

However as cool as this sounds we have no way  of processing the resulting images to store the events the camera would witness. We currently believe saving the histograms from each pixel of the megapixel camera would be the best way, but that would eat 1GB+ of RAM, and be a lot to sort through. We need help from you AV gurus. What do you think? Do you have any suggestions for this dilemma?