I suppose allowing the flame to play on a K-type thermocouple in an alumina sheath (or bare stainless steel) might prove to be an interesting method of measurement.
Posts by Alan Smith
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Why in a thread dedicated to the Google's replication of the F&P effect, RB is allowed to post 4 times the same image about a minor finding of a minor CF researcher (1-2-3-4), but it is forbidden to mention a well known phenomenon which has affected the original experiments of the two CF pioneers and all the many successful attempts to replicate their results (*)?
FTFY.
As for 'why not' you have beaten this argument to death. It's a dead Parrot. It is no longer of interest as far as I'm aware to anybody but you and flooding threads with the same argument time after time is boring and intrusive for other members.
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Those disposable knife blades look good. BTW, that golden coating on your brackets doesn't look like pure zinc - the colouring is typical of electro-deposited Zinc-Cadmium.
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So: fully boiling pure water is well mixed. But water with bubbles (foam) will have very different thermal conductivity in foam and water.
Foam? Don't you start.
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An interesting idea, I expect that you will get some kind of resonance as you hope. One of the mechanisms for this might well be the formation and subsequent escape of gas or (depending on current and voltage) steam bubbles from the gap. Not sure you need a neutral plate btw -I think it will merely confuse things by producing 2 resonant systems rather than one. What you have is akin to a tuning fork of course.
As for electrodes, I suggest you go to a cheap hardware store and buy a couple of cheap and flimsy stainless steel knives - they might be flexible enough to give you a result.
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And Ascoli65 any more posts on your only topic will be moved to clearance.
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Moreover, F&P didn't specified up to which level they checked the uniformity of temperature. For sure, their uniformity hypothesis doesn't hold anymore after the onset of nucleate boiling, which starts when the bulk temperature is still well below the boiling point, as happened in the "1992 boil-off experiment" (2).
The temperature of a vessel containing boiling water is much more uniform than the temperature of a vessel containing hot water. As anybody who does calorimetry knows very well.
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seven_of_twenty Most people don't know how to demand the correct tests for LENR? No surprise surely,most people don't know how to test the temperature of the bathwater either.
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I knew that hydrogen can effect thermocouples, you knew. So your suggestion that the authors did not is (I'm afraid) pure guesswork.
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Time to get back on topic, this is not a thread about 'the bomb'.
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.....unexplored possibility for these results is progressive contamination of the thermocouple by mono-atom H leading to higher readings.
Two questions ; -
1. How do you know it was unexplored?
2. If the Pt thermoresistor was damaged by monatomic H, how come it (apparently) fixed itself again?
Since the phenomenon is well known and the topic was raised by the authors, it would be a sophomore error not to check.
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Funnily enough for the last month (approx) we have been collecting data every second round the clock from an experiment similar to the Curie one. A few grams of 'past it's best' CF fuel and a thermocouple inside a Dewar, inside a Dewar, inside a fleece-packed jar inside a 12mm thick steel box which is connected to earth and covered in 4mm thick lead sheet. Effectively in a Faraday cage. An entirely passive set-up in which the test samples are never at the same temperature as their environment, which is monitored by several other very sensitive thermocouples.
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Keep it polite RB, please. We might all be accused of having dubious backgrounds, but it is not a style of commentary that is welcome here.
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Yes- here's a not untypical quote from a poster on the ADVFN Financial website.
'I am quite angry that a fine Englishman like Neil Woodford esq may have been taken for a ride by some not-so-fine gentlemen over the pond. Neil, bless him, was supposed to be looking after our home-grown bright sparks.';-
And from the same source
Https://www.investmentweek.co.uk/investment-week/analysis/3077052/regulatory-questions-to-be-asked-as-woodford-investors-capital-value-could-plummet
Https://moneyweek.com/509010/rock-star-fund-manager-woodford-gets-booed-off-stage/
Https://www.investmentweek.co.uk/investment-week/news/3077372/fresh-blow-to-woodford-as-hargreaves-lansdown-drops-income-focus-fund -
Here's another version of the link -which is paywalled for some.
The long-shot science that attracted Brad Pitt and Neil Woodford _ Financial Times (2).pdf
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google had research, and they failed. Why?
It has been suggested that they failed because they did not want to 'contaminate' their research programme by taking a lot of technical advice directly from scientists already working in the field. So they asked Ed Storms about calorimeters, and acknowledged his help in other papers, spoke a little to one or two others some time ago. But AFAIK there has been no ongoing dialogue between the GoogleX team and those outside the team who have published compelling - or even interesting - results.
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A suspension is limited to 28 days. But it can be renewed for another 28, and possibly another, But after that the fat lady would start singing. I guess they will hang on till September when DW announces the end of big oil.
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If you read the first post in this thread, by Eric Walker, you will perhaps appreciate why I moved your posts.
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I am 100% certain.
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The hedge funds are shorting a whole basket of stocks in this case, some less liquid than others. Whatever Woodford sells from the portfolio is an opportunity for profit, because in the current situation nobody will pay top dollar for even the good stuff.,