Display MoreRoseland67 wrote"you can be sure the professor would have immediately replicated it many, many times, then had it attended for additional replications"
100g of palladium=$3000.
Cost of apparatus probably $10000...a significant amount of sparrows tears in 1991
Why replicate an uncontrollable reaction many times? .. average heat power was about only 70 watts average over 14 days.
You can be sure the professor would NOT have replicated.. heat after death.
Mizuno has instead aimed to increase measurability. controllability. safety . cost. energy efficiency
At 70 years of age around 2014, within the constraints of sparrows tears, and perhaps crows feet, Mizuno achieved
"A test with this reactor lasts almost 30 days. Typical excess heat during the time is estimated as 300 W. Total energy is thus ~2.6×108 J. The amount of D2 used was 20 cm3 STP. Assuming that the reaction is D+D fusion, and assuming that all gases react, the amount of gas required to generate this much energy is approximately 12 cm3 STP." The energy output/input ratio was approximately 1.9.
Mizuno is controlling the nickel catalyst preparation to exclude oxygen/nitrogen and pack in the deuterium.
Then he is initiating the 'fusion ' with between ~50 and 100 volts. The task now is to optimise preparation, electrical input to increase the ratio to
over 2 then 4 and over 5. After that the use of hydrogen rather than deuterium may need to be examined. At $680/litre ,12 cm3 of D2 costs ~800 cents.
800/2.6×108 J is >3 cents/MJ. which is comparable to the price of natural gas.
1991-2014 might be considered slow progress by NASA , but for a hitori bochi gakusha on sparrows tears its super fast, and not without personal cost .
And currently the progress is better than anyone else has documented.
In Sapporo it is autumn. the momiji are so beautiful..not like mine in Sydney ..but money does not grow on them anywhere... unfortunately.
300W D-D would produce a great deal of byproducts. Were these measured?
