2010/3/26 Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com>: > Michel Jullian wrote: > >> No wonder, the cold fusion experimenters say "my cell makes excess >> heat" but they won't let skeptics see it with their own calorimeter. > > So, you would not believe the Wright brothers unless they let you fly their > airplane?
A better analogy is that I would not believe them unless I saw them flying it with my own eyes. > Actually, for most experiments, this demand makes no sense. Look at the > schematics from SRI, China Lake or Energetics Technology. The cell and the > calorimeter are the same thing. They are one and the same object. One > calorimeter cannot "be" or "replace" another, any more than you can take a > marble statue out of the statue and put it in another piece of marble. Or > than you can take the 7x magnification out of a pair of binoculars and put > it into a I-pod to test it out. The calorimetry is a function of how the > cell operates. > > Some of the experiments Ed Storms has run use a small cell placed in a > Seebeck calorimeter, where the two are separate objects. That's a more sensible way to do things IMHO. > It might be > possible to move something like this into the EarthTech MOAC, This would be so nice, I am sure it would make Scott's day to witness excess heat at last! > but I still > doubt it would work. Why? Michel