That is exciting news. Can a Cravens style demo be made by putting both control and test into a lab furnace? Hard to beat that for elegance and simplicity.
- Brad On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > Jack Cole continues to improve his prior results, based on a simplified > Rossi/Parkhomov alumina tube reactor - with the aim of finding a safe and > reliable “baseline” experiment which almost anyone can pull off, even a > physics professor, in order to see thermal gain greater than chemical. > > http://www.lenr-coldfusion.com/2015/01/27/replication-nilioh-excess-heat-results/ > > Please note: > > 1) Yes, Jack’s experiment is low gain (COP~ 1.1) for now, and has no > frills, but it is simple and SAFE and does not require large power input > (although larger input is being considered) > > 2) LAH is a dangerous reactant and only skilled experimenters with a > glove box should even think about it > > 3) This experiment is now looking repeatable, and given that it is > safer, since there is no LAH, hopefully it will be replicated by many, or > else someone will discover where the experimental error lies and why > control-run calibrated thermometry (as in Lugano) can’t be trusted. (note: > everyone agrees that this should move to precision calorimetry eventually, > once the gain is improved). > > 4) Please do not be overly critical of low budget efforts where the > gain is based on calibration against a dummy reactor. Not everyone can > afford foolproof calorimetry, but anyone can make small cumulative advances > to a common theme, if the underlying experiment is safe enough and > inexpensive. > > 5) In fact, Cole’s technique is similar but better performed than the > Lugano report, since he did use calibrated thermocouples which Levi failed > to do. > > 6) Since the resistance wire is internal the experiment cannot reach > temperatures in excess of say 1000C but lower temperature will show thermal > gain. But this makes the experiment much simpler. > > 7) In principle, COP of 1.1 is no less AMAZING than COP 2.5, if the > gain is above chemical, since both are arguably outside the laws of normal > thermodynamics. > > Jones
