On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Peter Gluck <peter.gl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jed please try: > http://newenergytimes.com/v2/news/2008/NET29-8dd54geg.shtml > see Nos 12 and 13- let me know if it works for you.
I found the passage below significant because a fairly recent discussion on vortex-l left me with the impression that they did not *publish* anything in response to the CERN paper. Harry <<Piantelli-Focardi Group Responds to CERN In November 1998, the Piantelli-Focardi group published "Large Excess Heat Production in Ni-H Systems,"[14] again in Il Nuovo Cimento. The paper directly responds to the most significant criticism of the 1996 CERN paper. In the Piantelli-Focardi authors’ introduction to their new paper, they state that they modified the cell they reported in 1994 [3] with "an improvement which allows the measurement and the monitoring of the external surface temperature." "With this new set-up," the Piantelli-Focardi group writes, "the external temperature increase, together with the internal one, have been utilized to characterize the excited state of the Ni sample. The existence of an exothermic effect, whose heat yield is well above that of any known chemical reaction, has been unambiguously confirmed by evaluating the thermal flux coming from the cells." The paper clarifies the term "excited state" as the phase in which the experiment was producing anomalous heat. Britz wrote the follow summary of the 1998 Piantelli-Focardi group’s paper: "In addition to a cell used by this team earlier, consisting of a tubular vacuum chamber with a heating mantle around a Ni rod and a single temperature probe on the outside and the inside of the mantle, a new cell has now been designed with multiple probes. “Hydrogen gas was admitted to the chambers, which were heated, and temperatures measured. Transient lowering of the input power produced, upon restoring the power, temperatures higher than before the transients. This showed the presence of nuclear phenomena, and calibrations performed calculated roughly 20 Watts of excess power generated by the hydrided Ni rods. The effect, once started, lasted for 278 days, the duration of the experiment.">>
