At 03:25 PM 7/14/2007 -0400, you wrote:
Dr. Mitchell Swartz wrote:
The Patterson cell was set up deliberately in a vertical flow system
which created
large false postive levels of excess heat.
I don't think so. A couple of questions about this hypothesis:
Why did this artifact sometimes produce heat, but not at other times?
Jed,
Even if active materials are used, failiure to operate them
at the optimal operating point, results in failure and/or irreproducibility.
This was discussed in Swartz. M., "Control of Low Energy Nuclear Systems
through Loading and Optimal Operating Points", ANS/ 2000 International
Winter Meeting,
Nov. 12-17, 2000, Washington, D.C. (2000), and
Swartz. M., "Generality of Optimal Operating Point Behavior in Low
Energy Nuclear Systems",
Journal of New Energy, 4, 2, 218-228 (1999), and
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), and
Swartz, M, "Optimal Operating Point Characteristics of Nickel Light
Water Experiments",
Proceedings of ICCF-7 (1998), and
Swartz. M., "Consistency of the Biphasic Nature of Excess Enthalpy in
Solid State Anomalous Phenomena
with the Quasi-1-Dimensional Model of Isotope Loading into a Material",
Fusion Technology, 31, 63-74 (1997) .
Why did it always produce heat with some cathode materials, but never with
other materials?
- Jed
Nickel materials are very varied in activity, and one of the most
difficult of materials to work with
(compared to say, palladium in heavy water) to maintain production of
excess heat with light water.
Furthermore, other problems accrue because nickel undergoes metallurgical
change upon loading
leading to no excess heat in the changed materials (which also blacken as
they become inactive).
We presented ervidence of these material changes in Swartz. M., "The
Impact of Heavy Water (D2O)
on Nickel-Light Water Cold Fusion Systems", Proceedings of the 9th
International
Conference on Cold Fusion (Condensed Matter Nuclear Science), Beijing, China,
Xing Z. Li, pages 335-342. May (2002).
Hope that helps.
Dr. Mitchell Swartz
