On 2013-02-23 09:39, Alain Sepeda wrote:
David on LENRNews.eu hav published a Swedish defense report : http://www.lenrnews.eu/swedish-defence/
This report would have not been surprising if it was just about plain nano/micrometric nickel powder experiments. The effects of hydrogen on nickel and nickel-based alloys have been studied for decades, without any nuclear or otherwise anomalous heating effect normally occurring.
However, as far as I understand, presumably active samples obtained from Brian Ahern were used as well, and during these Swedish experiments in no case excess heat above error margins has ever been detected.
Why is this worrying, people on other discussion venues are asking. The reason is that Ahern is one of the key researchers in the existing LENR community reported to successfully and reliably obtain significant (several watts) excess heat from Ni-H based experiments. He even has his own theory on the working mechanism, based on the concept of "nano-magnetism". I'm assuming the Swedish researchers who performed the experiments have been in contact with him for tips and suggestions. Nevertheless, they haven't been able to independently reproduce his results.
At this stage I think it's important to know what is Brian Ahern's opinion on this matter, which is probably known in the private mailing list CMNS. I invite people with access to that list to share relevant information here too, if possible.
Cheers, S.A.
