At 05:31 PM 12/26/2011, Mary Yugo wrote:
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Jed Rothwell
<<mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com>jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
Arata ran a small motor with one heated by a self-sustaining gas-loaded cell.
Cool! Did anyone verify this or replicate it? And how long did it
run and at what output level?
Mary! You can find this stuff yourself. Arata cells generate a low
level of heat, without any input, and the experimental runs I've seen
end at 3000 minutes, still cranking out the heat. Unfortunately we
don't have a lot of data on how much heat is really involved,
quantitatively. Arata's been replicated, that has been published as well.
(This is all fairly recent. To be sure, investors are not falling
over themselves to put money into a device that, with 7 grams of
nanoparticle palladium and some deuterium gas, runs 4 degrees C
hotter than the environment for 50 hours. In theory this could be
scaled up, but at that level, I figured that with a mere $100,000
worth of palladium, I might be able to build a home hot water heater
that would run for a while. However, there is a little problem:
apparently the reaction ultimately poisons or uses up the reaction
sites. If Rossi has found a way around that, it would indeed be remarkable. )
Why is it that specific questions as to power output and duration
are, to some cold fusion advocates, like sunshine to vampires?
We have that data for lots of experiments. Rossi is by no means
typical of work in the field, beyond a certain class of workers in
the field who aren't really scientists -- he isn't. Neither is "Aussie Guy."
It's sort of reminiscent of Rossi typically rushing to shut down
his demonstrations for dinner or whatever after only a few hours of
operation ... and of Aussie Guy bowing out of providing data on his
B level cells after saying qualitatively how fantasmagoric they
were. It's so discouraging and prevalent a phenomenon that I am
thinking of naming it. Maybe "Cold Fusion Evasion".
It's been called "fusion confusion." Look, Aussie Guy is anonymous,
what he writes is next to meaningless. Don't mix this up with the
huge corpus of work from hundreds of scientists around the world.
