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Question to experts.

Is the sequence of test a very good refutation of error in calorimetry? I'll tell the vision of a naive skeptic facing that chain of test.

• before that a calibration, showing very sane behavior...

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No, you will not. You do not accept the findings of Fleischmann, McKubre, Miles, Storms, Will or anyone else. They are not just well written. They are superbly executed, well written, peer-reviewed, and done by the world's…

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What does that mean? If it is a chemical reaction, both behaviors might occur. With cold fusion, an exothermic reaction is likely, but an endothermic one is not, based on all other experiments on record.
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I do not know his affiliation. His first name is Hang.

张 Zhang (surname)

航 Hang

I believe Zhang is a common name in China.

Zhang tells me the cell is again producing excess heat. It recovered from argon quench. It has been running for about 14 hours, 6 W maximum, with a lot more fluctuation up and down to zero and back up than last time.

However, there may be a problem. As…

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HOWEVER, having said all that, there is one possibility I did not cover. It may be that the heater is somehow triggering the reaction with something like IR radiation. In that case, if you were to reduce power to only 5 W in a…

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Thanks THH for your efforts. Yes, the data could be treated in the detail approach as you applied if an exact value for the activation energy were sought. Instead, we are only trying to determine whether the data shows a basic…

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This is true and very unfortunate. After reading about from all sources all these years, I have recently arrived to a similar realization: The belief that LENR is a shortcut of conventional fusion using the same ideas of hot fusion…

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Sure. Why not? I think Mizuno's present approach may be easier and more fruitful, but it would interesting to do the Pd-D experiment.

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I do not know if they did it the right way. The paper does not say how…

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Yes THH, the issue is confusing because people simply will not listen to what I'm saying. The experience shows without a doubt that the LENR effect is very material sensitive. The material MUST be able to produce the required…

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The work at Lawrence Lab is exploring the hot fusion reaction at low applied energy. The goal is to determine whether a new variation in the hot fusion reaction might occur when applied energy is low. They are not addressing the…

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It is difficult. I think ordinary bulk Pd-D would be better to start with. I think the Google people tried to do bulk Pd-D but they did not achieve high enough loading. In that case they could not do the boil off experiment. The…

I’ll point out that, as evidenced in Tanzella’s abstract for ICCF, Brillouin is doing exactly what I believe should be done to use the opportunity offered by Google’s initiative, i.e. using the calorimetry set-up proposed by Berlinguette and alii…

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That's good! That's the thing to do.

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I did not mean that people make discoveries by blindly floundering around, without a hypothesis. I meant that the talented young people you hire must form their own hypotheses. If they can't do that, they are not scientists. They…

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I hope you are right. I do not know enough about them to judge. The paper did not tell me anything about their work.

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Well, some of us did give answers, but there is no consensus of opinion. There cannot be,…

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The history of LENR is rich and well-documented. I suggest you start with: https://www.infinite-energy.com/images/pdfs/mitcfreport.pdf

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Of course they did not say "tooth and nail." Yet their actions were essentially…

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I pulled these out of the TG thread where they were off topic, and put them here for lack of a better place to move them to. If you have a better idea, I am listening.

Attached is a plot of Log excess power vs 1/T with an uncertainty of ±2 watts shown for the Mizuno data. A linear relationship is clearly produced, which is consistent with previous similar plots of excess power published in J. Cond. Matter Nucl. Sci.…

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They have the funding and equipment. Whether they have the talent remains to be seen. Many brilliant scientists and research organizations have done bad research, in cold fusion and other areas. The NHE is generally good, and it has…