Originally posted by Douglas_of_Sweden This would be good enough for me
so it is obvious you really aren't a scientist.............
Quote: 3. Summary
A rather large error of 40 mW was reported for the MIT calorimetry. This large error is due mainly to the thick glass
wool insulation that surrounded the walls of the MIT cells. As a result, the desired heat flow pathway from the cell to
the constant temperature water bath was severely blocked, thus a major portion of the heat flow was through the cell
top to the room temperature air. This created a large error source due to the large room temperature variations. Other
contributing sources of error were the error in temperature measurements (±0.1 K), a large electrolyte level effect, and
missing calorimetric terms in the MIT calorimetric analysis. In contrast, the Fleischmann-Pons Dewar calorimetric
cells provided for a constant radiative heat transfer pathway directly from the cell to the constant temperature water
bath, much more accurate temperature measurements (±0.001 K), a minimized electrolyte level effect due to a constant
radiative heat transfer surface area, and the use of all required calorimetric terms in their data analysis. In addition,
extensive data averaging and numerical integration of the calorimetric data in the differential equationwas used to obtain
an accuracy of ±0.1 mW [13,15]. For any unbiased scientist, it should be clear that the Fleischmann–Pons calorimetry
was far superior to that reported by MIT. Therefore, the MIT calorimetric results cannot be used as a refutation of the
Fleischmann–Pons reports of anomalous excess energy in Pd/D systems
funny no "if" here:
Quote: D.D. Dominguez ∗,
D.A. Kidwell, D.L. Knies, K.S. Grabowski and G.K. Hubler
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA
J.H. He
Nova Research Inc., Alexandria, VA, USA
V. Violante
ENEA, Frascati, Italy
Abstract
The generation of excess power in a palladium deuteride electrochemical system is often difficult and time consuming. Long
incubation times, on the order of weeks or months, are necessary presumably for the basic electrolyte to dissolve and redeposit
essential impurities onto the cathode surface. To accelerate this process, we added chemical additives to the electrolyte once the
palladium was loaded with deuterium. Chemicals that produce oxide interfaces on the palladium surface seemed to occasionally
produce apparent excess power. A single Pd90Rh10 cathode generated a total apparent excess energy on the order of 10 kJ after
a series of additions in an experiment that only took one week. The results are encouraging and may lead to an understanding of
what triggers excess power production in Fleischmann–Pons-type experiments. A hypothetical model describing the possible role
of oxide interfaces is described..
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Unrelated but for fun:
http://www.populartechnology.net/2009/10/peer-reviewed-papers-supporting.html http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/evolution/Climate-Change-Deniers-Not-as-P...roponents.html Quote: iggs: Congratulations. You totally sprayed on those climate deniers. Clearly humans should stop burning fossil fuel and start powering the world with cold fusion! PhACT, by the way, stands for the Philadelphia Association for Critical Thinking. The story in question was a blog post announcing that a physicist would be giving a talk for PhACT about cold fusion. It was a good talk, or so I'm told.
"sigh"..........................
Addendum:
Quote: Francesco Celani, a physicist with the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Frascati, Italy, brought a LENR device he developed that uses hydrogen gas and a specially treated nickel wire.
Daniel Rocha sums up the demo on Brian Wang’s NextBigFuture site with these details.
Celani has shown that excess heat was produced during the conference for 6 hours, but it continued after the conference for 55 hours, up to the time when this email was sent. The short summary lists:
-Celani’s demo reactor was turned on for about 6 hours before NIWeek 2012 started, on Saturday.
- On Sunday the demo reactor was brought to the NIWeek 2012 hall where it got turned on before 12:00 and *still is working*, so for a total of 55 hours as of writing.
- The reaction is stable. Peak excess heat power was 22W, currently stabilized at about 14W.
- Testing performed in front of a wide audience.
- Celani’s testing wire is made as a Cu-Ni-Mn alloy, a good sample that was already previously used 4 times by him at his labs in Frascati (Italy).
I wonder if Celani drove up in a Delorean....
http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/Yet-Another-Successful-...-the-Race.html