SKINR / University of Missouri starting replication attempt

Not replicating exactly is very common in the domain.
This is what was clearly stated at RNBE symposium in Avignon.
This made people like George Lonchampt very valuable , as he was among the few to try to strictly replicate experiment, and with Miles he is the only one to have strictly replicated F&P.

Nothing exceptional in emerging science and technology, as Jed Rothwell explain from Wright Brothers story... The replicators were sometime more funny than tragic.

At RNBE I've learned that Biberian have send a recipe from F&P for another He4 producing experiment.
As I remember it was send to many labs but only SKINR seems to be able to do it...
As I remember it is a low current electrolysis that after many month produce He4 at a point that light spectrometry can detect it clearly.
The "recipe" is not simple at all and demand very detailed procedure (like removing light water trace from heavy-water, treating electrodes...).

I hope both experiments will be well made, and will be real replication. Crossing my fingers.

The LENR phenomenon is enough elusive not to add uncertainty from change in the procedure.

Yes, it seems SKINR is one of the only LENR lab not working with shoestring.
The work they negotiated with CERN/ISOLDE seems a great finding.

Infinite Energy in latest issue publsih an article about SKINR
http://www.infinite-energy.com/images/pdfs/SKINRIE126.pdf

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Overview of the Sidney Kimmel Institute for Nuclear Renaissance (SKINR)

The Anomalous Heat Effect (AHE) is the appearance of excess energy in the form of heat when a Pd cathode is electrolyzed in heavy water (D2O) and is much less evident when light water (H2O) is used.1-4 This paper describes the organization, motivation and plans of an institute formed to perform fundamental research aimed at discovering the mechanism of the AHE.

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SKINR owes its existence to Sidney Kimmel, Energetics LLC, CBS News and Dr. Rob Duncan. We are studying both electrochemical and gas loading experiments in palladium deuterium/hydrogen systems, but with main emphasis on the electrochemical method where we have had all of our positive results. Our near-term goals are increasing reproducibility in electrolysis experiments, and mechanistic studies that may lead to improved understanding of the origin of anomalous heat. Results from more fundamental experiments are needed to be able to formulate a working model for the FPE. Extensive collaborations were developed inside UM and with outside institutions, and we invite more collaborators. We believe in open research objectives, plans and publication of results. We have much optimism at SKINR that the rate of unraveling the mysteries of the AHE is accelerating.

SKINR seems to be replacing SRI as the clearing house for determining what is LENR, and what is not, after McKubre's retirement. This is from ICCF 19 1 year ago:

In related work, the SKINR group sought to replicate results reported by Celani at previous ICCFs. They did sensitive mass flow calorimetry on eight Cu-Ni-Mn wires, six from Celani and two others from Mathieu Valet. The group employed a stainless steel cell, in contrast to the glass cell of Celani, in order to be able to perform the calorimetry. But, they followed closely the set-up, operation and heating protocols that earlier gave excess heat for the Celani group. Beyond the initial protocol, they tried pulsed and highlymodulated (SuperWave) driving voltages. Neither the original nor the new protocols gave excess heat during about 200 days of testing, with a calorimetric sensitivity of less than 10 mW

They have also been helpful in bringing the various parties (MFMP, ENEA, Duncan) together for a more disciplined approach in tackling the issues. In addition, they are doing their own research as this excerpt from ICCF19 shows:

Two new papers at ICCF19 on production of excess heat by electrochemical means came from the Sidney Kimmel Institute for Nuclear Renaissance (SKINR) at the University of Missouri. Orchideh Azizi and a team of eight others took creative approaches to production of cathode materials with surface structures on the scales of micrometers and nanometers. In the first paper, they produced Pd nanoparticles and then suspended them in an electrolyte of D2O and 0.1 M LiOD prior to electrolysis. This yielded cathodes having particles uniformly distributed on the Pd substrates, which achieved high loading with deuterons. Both a closed cell with a recombiner and an open cell were employed. The closed cell did not yield excess heat, but the open cell gave excess heat for “several days” with a gain of 1.15 to 1.65. Low cell currents favored excess heat production. The SKINR team also studied the effects of proton or deuteron absorption into and diffusion through foils in a permeation double cell