Posts by Alan Smith

Very true. But this is Cordon Bleu cooking, so at this stage neither. It's about creating the environment within the system that triggers D2 fusion.

Its too soon to call this a null - sometimes it takes quite a few heat cycles to trigger a result.

I would use stainless tubing if only to keep the materials palette simple, Also I would sooner use swagelocks than teflon tape.

Quote from Bruce__H

In the same article Shechtman says that Pauling eventually couldn't get his papers published because they were so obviously against the evidence. Shechtman himself was able to publish his discovery in a top flight journal within 2 years and widespread acceptance followed soon after. People here are ignoring this because it doesn't fit the narrative that the very greatest discoveries (like poor poor LENR!) are ignored and buried by the mainstream since they are earth shattering and science doesn't like shattered earth

That is as much or more) your narrative as it is that of any other poster above. You are espousing an an argument you would love to start. My own view is that academics are too often back-stabbing precious buggers who would benefit from a little ,more fibre in their diet.

@Director.

That's a bit strong to say the least. LP was a great man who made a few mistakes when he got old. His obsession with heroic doses of Vitamin C as a wonder medicament was one of them

Arun Luthra

Look in your local directory for a company that build custom stainless steel exhausts. They have the kit and know all about gas-tightness. You need a fair bit of practice to weld stainless perfectly as magicsound points out- it is an unforgiving material.

Quote from Shane D.

Puthoff has a list accomplishment as long as my arm, and you focus on this? The CIA funded his research into the paranormal. If they paid me enough money, I would do it also. So what that he fell for Geller's tricks? You do not write off a man's lifelong contributions to science, just because he was wrong a few times.

Indeed, Hal Puthoff wrote what was for a long time considered to be 'the book' on Quantum Chromodynamics and has worked on more black projects in the physics world than most people have had roast turkey dinners. He also founded Earthtech in Austin Tx, a company which has been investigating and reporting on frontier science for decades.

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I think the thermocouples are a good idea also, but we know they are never fully accepted for energy balance purposes (same for IR methodology) so they are valuable tools for quick assessment but calorimetry is a must have at the end of the day.

It depends on the relative signal strength. Using the same reactor and the exact same (mechanically fixed) thermocouple positions and calibrating the system using ohmic heating before and after key events is fine. It is not a great choice for energy balance, but with hoped-for COP's in excess of 3:1 it should provide sufficient proof to facilitate moving things along to the next stage where more elaborate (time-consuming and expensive) methods can be used.

Here's a little bit of entertainment. My colleague and I building a 60x7.5 cm reactor almost from scratch. The turned face of the flange was diamond-lapped by hand to finish the job.

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As I understand it water calorimetry was ruled out due to the high temperature or the reactor. Would it be possible to put a small amount of insulation (kiln paper?) between the mesh and reactor wall to keep the mesh temperature high while reducing the wall temperature to allow water based cooling/calorimetry? The whole reactor could be put in a water bath to capture all the heat output.

I think JedRothwell mentioned that the problem was that water cooled the reactor wall (presumable locally) too much and 'put out the fire'. That seems possible and would rule out immersion calorimetry which looks temptingly easy.. The usual method of doing higher-temperature fluid calorimetry is to use silicone oil, but underlying the other problems is the fact that switching reactors with 'hard-wired' plumbing is much more time-consuming and complex than just putting them into a fan-cooled box and taking them out. Also calibration becomes very 'positionally sensitive' where moving the cooling tube a few mm across the reactor wall can change results hugely. And AFAIK Mizuno is a 'lone wolf' researcher who needs to save time where he can.

I am not a fan (pun intended) of air calorimetry but I can see the utility of it for Mizuno. My own preference in such a case would be to use multi-point relative thermometry, with as many thermocouples as possible fixed permanently to the surface of the reactor/

Ed has asked me to point out that his other book, also now only available in Kindle format (The Science of LENR) needs to be ordered from World Scientific

Hi Mum is very old, but still a big reader. Just that she has a bad memory these days.

Quote from Bruce__H

I suppose this thread will crank along now along in a predictably lachrymose fashion. In fact here is a prediction ... I predict that we will soon we see posts here whose logic is that because LENR faces a lack of acceptance from mainstream science it must therefore be true! But that reasoning is fallacious.

If you wish to make a mountain out of a molehill, then do so. However, please don't make it everybody else's fault.

A 10 minute Video published in 2011 but very relevant to the problem of opposition to scientific progress that is discussed in here from time to time. Daniel Shechtman overcame huge scepticism about the existence of quasicrystals to win the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Islamic artisans constructed similar Exotic Nonrepeating Patterns 500 Years before modern mathematicians re-created them. From 6 minutes on he talks about the opposition to his discovery, and about its affects on his life and career. Thanks to member 'Director' for the tip-off.

Members will I am sure noticed that Dr. Edmund Storms has posted some observations on Mizuno's experiment in our forum based on his huge experience in the cold fusion field. It occurs to me that Ed's book on the 'nuts and bolts' of LENR might be of interest. Now only available as a $22 Kindle book, (or an $800 paperback!) it covers a lot of ground on the topic.

One reviewer who bought the Amazon Kindle version said:- 'Not a light read, but a thorough examination of the experimental evidence for a new form of energy. It is not hot fusion at a lower temperature, but a different reaction altogether.
Storms then goes on to look at existing explanations and goes on to expand his own possible explanation. If you seriously want to know more about this subject, settle down to read this, with pencil and paper to make notes.'

In the book’s Foreword, Dr. Michael McKubre, (Formerly) Director, Energy Research Lab at SRI International, writes: “The opportunity to learn directly from the most knowledgeable person in arguably the most important emerging field, and to share his concise and well considered condensation of a difficult and scattered literature, are not the only or primary reasons to comprehend The Explanation of Low Energy Nuclear Reaction. Laid out clearly and gently in Chapter 5, ‘Description of an Explanation,’ is the first physical science based description of a potential explanation for cold fusion.”

https://www.amazon.com/Explana…+energy+nuclear+reaction#

'Create the environment and Nature does the rest' - that's how I've come to see it too.

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,... sealing is done with red loctite suggested by french CEA

Unless you are thinking of something else, this is better than any loctite compound. The high-temperature ones fail at 250+

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0…=gs2&tag=healthtrecouk-21

Quote from Arun Luthra

There are sapphire windows that go up to 450 C.

The limit here is not the Sapphire, but the glass-to-metal seals. You should look for a Kovar sealed port.

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