JonesBeene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote:
> Why not put the reactor in a water bath and confirm the excess heat that > way? … or water flow. > I think a water bath would kill the heat. As we wrote in the paper: We recommend air-flow calorimetry for this experiment. The reactor walls must be hot for this reaction to occur. In previous experiments we used water-flow calorimeters with cooling coils up against the reactor walls, or cooling coils with insulation between the coil and the wall. Both types removed heat too quickly, reducing or eliminating the reaction. The calorimeter is an integral part of the experiment. It can interfere with the results, or enhance them. A Seebeck calorimeter might work. The internal conditions resemble those of an air-flow calorimeter. I think it is important that the calorimeter not cool the outside wall of the reactor much more than this air-flow calorimeter does. I think that would interfere with the reaction, or prevent it. That was a problem with Mizuno's earlier calorimeter, as we described in some of the papers. It was also the problem with McKubre's calorimeter, according to Fleischmann. Fleischmann and McKubre strongly disagreed about this. Fleischmann emphasized that the calorimeter is an integral part of the experiment. It can interfere with the experiment. This must be prevented. To replicate an experiment, you have to think carefully about how the calorimeter in the original experiment works, in terms of heat removal, operating temperatures and so on. > > Few observers are going to be satisfied with air flow alone. > Good. That's a litmus test to filter out pathological skeptics. Seriously, after looking at the ICCF21 paper and and Figs. 2 through 7 of this paper, I do not think anyone can come up with a plausible reason why a 10 deg C temperature difference might be an artifact. (In Fig. 5.) Anyone who thinks it might be an artifact should ignore this experiment. The ICCF21 calorimetry was close enough to the margin that I myself had some doubts about it, as I described here: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MizunoTexcessheat.pdf *This* is a different story. > Does high heat transfer quench the effect? > Yup. - Jed
