As I reported here, I sent Srinivasan a short message asking him to clarify his thoughts about the Ni-H experiments at BARC and SRI. I wrote to him:
I was talking to Jones Beene about you said regarding your work at SRI. You tried to replicate Mills. As I recall, you said you got some indications of heat, but mostly null results, and even the positive results were marginal. In ICCF3, p. 123 you reported much stronger results: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/IkegamiHthirdinter.pdf Jones described this: "As for Srinivasan, Rothwell reported that he has directly contradicted, in verbal discussions, some of his own prior paper’s conclusions . . ." He responded with the message below. Then he sent me a memo which he and Mike McKubre published in Infinite Energy, in 1994, while the tests were underway. I will try to copy the memo text here. It is 8,400 characters so it may be too long for this forum. In that case I will upload it. Anyway, the text from his e-mail is below. It is more or less as I recalled from the lecture. The excess heat results could not be replicated at SRI. He thinks they are probably from recombination. He still thinks the tritium results were valid. The next message in this thread will be my attempt to copy the memo. I might break it into pieces. It is mostly text without a lot of formatting. - Jed - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . Jones is right. At ICCF 3 we did report "excess" heat from many Ni-H cells. At SRI (Sept 93 to Mar 94) Mike encouraged me to reproduce those results. These were open cells. The excess heat was reported wrt to (V-1.52) * I and not V*I. There was suspicion that there might be some recombination taking place within the open cells. So at SRI we placed the open beaker on a digital balance. The weight loss could be continuously monitored and recorded. I also collected the off gases in a separate vessel where there was a recombination catalyst. We could measure the exact amount of water that left the open electrolysis cell as a function of time. The apparent excess heat produced could be nicely correlated with the amount of recombination taking place. These results were reported as a short Technical Note in an issue of Gene Mallove's Cold Fusion magazine some time in 1995 I think! I had to concede that the excess heat reported at Nagoya could (must?) have been due to recombination. After this experience I decided never to try measure excess heat in open cells. ButI still held on to Tritum production in Ni-H cells. Although the cells at SRI did not yield T, the repeat measurements done at BARC later and reported in FT confirmed low level tritium production in Ni-H cells. Thanks for the interest shown in our "Ancient" work! Chino
