Gegene testing by heating water (directly or indirectly)

[PhysicsProf]

  I've been gearing up (as I know Slider and others have also) to test the Gegene.  Despite packing and moving, I'm carving out time to pursue this study along with the slayer-exciter circuit and others.

   Gosh this is fun! it really gets me going.

Over at the public area, Wings (whoever he/she is) posted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4wzJdd9Lb8

To which I replied:

Thanks for that, wings.  Is this fellow-researcher in Russia?  clever fellow...

I liked the way he removed the coil from the stove, then placed BPCoils on either side of it.
Also, nice test with the metal disk in the glass bowl + water.  Wish he had measured the temp rise, then compared the Qheating (KJ, convert to KW-h) with Energy input (KW-h).  I can do that...

I've been thinking more about this today.  To test the Gegene , it seems desirable to use calorimetery, i.e., to HEAT WATER and measure the temp rise.  This I noted above, and in numerous posts, as have others.

So Naudin takes a BPC with current induced from the cooker, then runs that through a resistor in water to heat the water -- thus, heating water via an indirect path.
 
  The vid-maker (Russian) simply puts a disk presumably ferro-magnetic in a glass dish holding water and heats the water semi-directly. No wires. Clever.

   But then the next step IMHO would be to add some salts (ferro-magnetic??) to water in a glass or plastic bowl, and heat that solution DIRECTLY over the induction cooker.

   BUT -- does the additive have to be ferro-magnetic for the anomalous- heating effect (AHE) to occur? 
Does regular heating with the induction cooker -- same question for  AHE -- depend mostly on Eddy currents and electrical resistance, or mostly on hysterisis-effects-heating, or both?  probably both.

NOTE:  I'm not looking for something potable or edible here -- looking rather for "anomalous heating effects"...

But note with the flat BPC made of copper wire, there is no hysterisis-effect heating in the BPC, just current, similar to  eddy-currents in a cooking pot.  But the induction heater works much better IIRC if the pot is ferro-magnetic...  yet most (like Naudin) are using copper wire...

So now I'm looking for a ferromagnetic salt, that stays ferro-magnetic when dissolved in water...  hmmmm...

Lots of avenues to pursue...  Your thoughts? 

[PhysicsProf]

  Let me start with a simpler question -- as I'm climbing the learning curve.

  As I read about induction cookers, finding that the heating of the pan is from two sources:

1.  Induced (Eddy) currents, and resistance in the pan
2.  Hysteresis losses, hence the "requirement" for a ferro-magnetic pan.  Some steel pans do not work well because of this (IIRC).

My question -- I assume a pancake coil picks up energy only by (1), and the needed resistance is in the load -- since copper is not ferro-magnetic. So, is "ferro-magnetic" not required?