The information below is from a private email from Mitch, reproduced here with his permission.
LANR Engineering -
Imaging Has Yielded Gouts of Cold Fusion/LANR Information to the Electricals in CF, This is a continuation of a series on WORKING CF/LANR systems wrought by electrical engineering ["EE"]. It appears that some of the best WORKING CF/LANR/LENR systems require EE for optimal operation and achievement of the desired active state, and EE developed the myriad means we use of recording data - and this is some of the story.
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Russell Kirsch: Pixel Pioneer And The Father Of Digital Imaging
Russell Kirsch (**) made the first digital image scanner, and thus the pixel was born as he imaged his 3 month old son, Walden, in 1957. Using a rotating drum scanner, a strobe illumination, and a photomultiplier vacuum tube,the resultant first pixelized pic is below.
https://hackaday.com/2020/08/2…ital-imaging/#more-427918
Walden Kirsch (1957)
From the evolution of that system, has come gifs, jpegs.JPEG and GIF both store images, but JPEG uses a lossy compression algorithm whereas GIF uses a lossless compression algorithm. And we all have used them (and the successors) routinely in CF/LANR, for example from the pictures of the late Prof. Srinivasan's emitting CF/LANR Ti electrode, to the visible and infrared pictures we took as in situ photos during many of our excess heat runs (and controls), and even to our group pics at ICCF meetings.
Image by colleague Dr. Mahadevan "Chino" Srinivasan
Video imaging, thereafter, has been very important for us enabling in situ examination of the LANR/CF cathodes. These cameras -IR and visible- were placed up v. close, and the pics/videos have confirmed our Q1D equations. They have made active CF/LANR more easily achievable for XSH this way. The vids/pics also made clear that perhaps a number of people (many) in this field are essentially in denial of the facts, accepting consensus as to what is going, ignoring access to some of the better, more efficient, useful types of CF/LANR systems during their controlled optimal operation thus yielding improved excess heat activity.
In any case, in all our work the pictures/vids (like Chino's above) declare the Truth, and some (like the assymetrically bubbling Pd cathode(s) in high impedance solution shown below) were so disturbing that my friend Mike McKubre was so incredulousat the time, that he injected his opinion about this, that the bubbling on one side of the cathode "could not exist",even while I was speaking in the middle of my Tuesday morning lecture
at ICCF-10 [and even as the demonstration proving it exists, and its impact, was in its active state upstairs in the RLE building at MIT where the ICCF-10 group would be headed later that Tuesday afteroon.
Phusor® -type component with assymetric bubbling obvious. Anode is to the left, and is not photographed here.
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[top: ICCF-10 photo of active Phusor-type cathode
bottom: ICCF-14 photos; clear regions become IR "hot" during excess
heat, as discussed in Swartz M., Verner G., et al., Non-Thermal
Near-IR Emission from High Impedance and Co-deposition LANR Devices,
Proc. ICCF-14 1, (2008), p 343; 978-0-578-06694-3, 343, (2010)]
Some of our early low res pics are above. Others, later became high res, including the cathodic Schlieren video imaging made on some of our better CF/LANR system 'lab rats' as shown/discussed at several MIT Colloquia. Even later, other helpful types of imaging included those images obtained from CR-39 presented at ICCF-18, and those that picked up the incredibly useful coherent antiStokes emissions and the recently perceived deuterium-line RF emissions [maser and sidebands as super-hyperfine lines] caught by a graphic waterfall SDR [ICCF-22].
In summary, the efficiency - and type - of Pd loading is CRITICAL, as are control of the other critical D fluxes [**]. The control requires using the Q-1-D equations (more 411 coming soon, btw), which have led to more info, ideas, secondary paths, and discoveries
on unexplored trails which others outside this field purport "do not even exist". [**] The Q-1-D loading model is covered in the papers previously discussed. After achieving control of such CF/LANR 'lab rats', in addition to calorimetry it has been the in situ images which have made historic salient confirmations and unexpected discoveries for us.
The CF/LANR pictures, & the videos, and hours of recordings at very system high voltages, and even the demo @MIT that week of ICCF-10, have saliently shown, and repeatedly confirmed, exactly how to
control the loading of the PdD alloy, required to produce an active CF/LANR state pumping out the desired XSH, coherent anti-Stokes signals, and Deuterium Line RF emissions.
