At 11:11 PM 11/27/4, Harry Veeder wrote: >Hi, > >This is my first post. > >I was wondering if anyone in CF community has looked for evidence of a >correlation between the orientation of a CF cell and the amount of excess >heat produced. > >Perhaps the performance of a CF cell would change if the cell or some of its >parts were rotated 90 degrees or even spun. > >This questions are based on the speculation that the direction of gravity >(rather than the magnitude of gravity) may effect the performance of CF >cells. > >Harry Veeder
I don't know of any gravitational effects related to actual CF. However, Mitchell Schwartz, who posts here sometimes and is publiher of COLD FUSION TIMES, has published on the existence of *calorimetry anomalies* relating to gravity. Issues related to convection and stratification are important to the design of reliable calorimeters. Improperly designed calorimeters can give false data regarding CF. Calorimetry is vitally important to the study of CF because the heat signature of CF does not appear concurrent with the high energy particle emissions characteristic of hot fusion.
Regards,
Horace Heffner
Horace is correct. The ideas are interesting.
Regarding calorimeters, there are several possible ways both thermal stratification and
Bernard instability can effect all and vertically-directed flow calorimeters,
respectively. The latter can be corrected.
Thus, continuum electromechanics (through possible Bernard instabilities
both within and outside calorimeters) can be used to analyze these systems
and suggest possible sources of error and means to improve calculations.
The relevant papers are:
ROLE OF GRAVITY IN PRODUCING ERRORS IN HORIZONTAL-FLOW CALORIMETERS
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Swartz, M., "Potential for Positional Variation in Flow Calorimetric Systems",
Journal of New Energy 1,1, 126-130 (1996) (*)
Swartz, M, "Improved Calculations Involving Energy Release Using a Buoyancy Transport Correction",
Journal of New Energy, 1, 3, 219-221 (1996)
ROLE OF GRAVITY IN THERMAL STRATIFICATION
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Swartz, M., "Relative Impact of Thermal Stratification of the Air Surrounding a Calorimeter",
Journal of New Energy, 2, 219-221 (1996)
Swartz, M., "Time Course of Thermal Stratification and Its Relevance to Flow Calorimeters",
Journal of New Energy, 4, 4, 120-125, (2000).
Also relevant
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Swartz. M., "Patterns of Failure in Cold Fusion Experiments",
Proceedings of the 33RD Intersociety Engineering Conference on Energy Conversion, IECEC-98-I229, Colorado Springs, CO, August 2-6, (1998)
Swartz. M., G. Verner, A. Frank, H. Fox "Importance of Non-dimensional Numbers and Optimal Operating Points in Cold Fusion",
Journal of New Energy, 4, 2, 215-217 (1999)
Swartz, M., "Thermal Conduction and Non-differential Temperature Corrections to the Enthalpic Flow Equation",
Journal of New Energy, 3, 1, 10-13, (1998)
