The tests with the cells had been always performed in the Siena Univ.Physics Dept.- the analytical work in many labs. The authors are presented in alphabetical order, by tradition, otherwise papers with multiple authors create some problems.
Nano-nickel can be manufactured by different physical and chemical methods (a very complex area of research) and it seems here has Rossi succeeded to make a breakthrough. Peter On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is part of a message I posted in another forum, worth recalling here > -- > > . . . . I mentioned that Fleischmann et al. sustained high power density > and temperatures for 2 to 3 months with many cells. There were others. Most > notably, I should have said that Focardi et al. did. That's very important, > since they were using Ni-H, similar to Rossi. See: > > http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/CampariEGphotonandp.pdf > > (Oops. I have to fix the Fig. 6 caption in this paper.) > > As you see, there are 9 authors from two universities. This was published > in 2004. This paper shows two samples: one that produced 900 MJ in 278 days, > and one that produced 600 MJ in 319 days. The first one is 37 W average. > That's a respectable power level for such a small device. Nothing like > Rossi, but still, it is easily measured. > > . . . There is plenty of precedent for Rossi. The people he is working with > have seen similar effects for years with nickel. They were using macroscopic > samples, whereas Rossi is using nanoparticle powder. Arata made a similar > breakthrough with palladium nanopowder long before Rossi. > > Unless you think these 9 professors and many others are committing fraud as > well, there is no reason to suppose that Rossi is now. They are doing > more-or-less the same thing, and from a scientific perspective, 900 MJ over > 278 days is just as astounding as the 1,000 MJ in 18 hours Rossi produced on > Feb. 10. > > - Jed > > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
