In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:15:36 -0400: Hi, [snip] >For the Zr-Pd they used flow calorimetry. The flow rate is 6 cc/min >which seems far too low to me. It looks to me like they got ~180 mW >anomalous heat after the heat of formation of Pd-D finished. > >The Pd-H runs are a pretty clean null, so perhaps they can measure >with 6 cc/min. I hope so, but I wish they would use a larger sample >to get more heat, and a higher flow rate.
A higher flow rate would result in a lower temperature differential. Generally, when the signal is smaller, variations in the signal form a larger percentage of it, resulting in less reliable measurements. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
