The argument is not conclusive I am afraid. Evaporation could conceivably have been 10cc instead of the 5cc assumed by Melvin (7.7cc - 7.2cc), in which case the 5cc "missing loss" would be due to internal recombination, which would then account for the excess heat.
I don't think excess heat can be conclusively demonstrated in an open cell arrangement. Michel 2009/1/3 Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>: > Here is a message from Melvin Miles about recombination. > > Subject: Shanahan's misunderstandings of recombination > > . . . If Shanahan's statements about my NHE co-deposition measurements are > typical of his lack of understanding of cold fusion experiments, then I > would not give credence to anything he says. For example, I did not convert > the outflowing gases to water as Shanahan states. > > For my three NHE co-deposition experiments, I simply measured the initial > and final volumes of electrolyte to obtain the volume of D2O consumed. For > the cell in question (Cell A-2), the initial volume was 91 +/- 1 cc, the > final volume was 83.3 cc, thus 7.7 +/- 1 cc was consumed versus 7.2 cc > calculated by Faraday's Law. A quick approximate calculation indicates that > the volume of D2O consumed would have to be smaller by about 5 cc if the > excess heat in this experiment were due to recombination. This was NOT > observed. The amount of D2O consumed by electrolysis is within experimental > error (+/- 1 cc) of Faraday's Law. > > A slightly higher D2O consumption is expected experimentally because the D2 > and O2 gases bubbling out of D2O are always saturated with D2O vapor. This > is an evaporation effect and not Shanahan's entrainment. Fleischmann's > calorimetric equations have always included this evaporative effect. > > Full details of all three co-deposition studies are in my NHE Report, pp. > 22-25 (see LENR-CANR.org). There was no correlation of the excess heat to > recombination in any of these three cells. > [This refers to http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MilesMnedofinalr.pdf to > which I should add page numbers. - JR] > > I hope this helps to discredit Shanahan's false statements about my > experiments as well as his statements about cold fusion in general. > > Mel > > ot conclusive I am a
