I hear you - I'd love to just get access to some of the parallel machines at one of the unis around the states, and pop onto it using an SSH client. In fact, I may be doing that sometime in the near future if I can convince people to let me. But anywho, the only thing I think you'd need to consider in the above equation is that the calculation of your Q is dependent on the initial temps, with a dependence of T^4. So by the time it drops in half, your driving force has dropped substantially. So your Q is going to drop like T^4, and your time is going to shoot out a bit. I think.
Back to that FEA software.
Shit, my girlfriend is home. Time to run.
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