On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:10 PM, Alberto De Souza < alberto.investi...@gmail.com> wrote:
The LENR community must first focus on this binary hypothesis: "A reactor > loaded with LENR fuel produces excess (non-chemical) heat" (true/false). To > test this hypothesis one has to run an experiment to test exactly that: is > the reactor with fuel hotter? This simplifies the problem a lot. > I am impressed with this suggestion. It makes things very simple. Calorimetry and thermometry will be helpful to people who are already partly persuaded and are trying to engineer a better reaction. But that kind of approach has lead to interminable quibbling within a larger audience. The approach you suggest, by contrast, will go a long way to remove occasion for fiddly questions. People will still find things to complain about, but the simpler approach may be good enough to satisfy the median skeptical onlooker, and the long tail of died-in-the-wool skeptics do not matter. Since your simpler approach does not obtain an integrated measurement, one complication would be significant swings in the temperature of either the device in test or the control, with the control running hotter than the functional unit for stretches of time. Eric
