Krivit made a correction and sent me a note, but I think the paragraph still needs work. I am surprised he does not know this stuff. Here is his note and my response.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hi Jed, My text is not correct and your point is well-taken. I have removed "state-of-the-art in LENR research" and corrected the sentence as follows: "The main problem with his promotion was that the typical current results, at the time, and still today, was and is a couple of Watts of excess heat that last for a few minutes." I will post a correction notice on the article in a minute. Thank you, Steve - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - You wrote: > I have removed "state-of-the-art in LENR research" and corrected the > sentence as follows: > > "The main problem with his promotion was that the typical current results, > at the time, and still today, was and is a couple of Watts of excess heat > that last for a few minutes." > Still wrong. Excess heat of a few watts that lasts a few minutes (say ~240 joules) could not be detected with many calorimeters. It has to last for 10 minutes or so, and most examples of excess heat I know of lasted for hours or days. As McKubre says, the effect is neither small nor fleeting. In 1994, McKubre said the heat typically lasts 8 to 23 days: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/McKubreMCHdevelopmen.pdf Here is an early example from Fleischmann, lasting 300,000 seconds (3.4 days): http://www.newenergytimes.com/v2/conferences/2010/ARL/Pres/13Nagel-EnergyGainsinLENR-Experiments.pdf Here is one that lasted about 1.2 million seconds (14 days) at low level, followed by several hours at high heat (~100 W): http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Fleischmancalorimetra.pdf Also, as I said, such short-duration heat would not exceed the limits of chemistry. That is, it would not be "excess heat in deuterium-loaded palladium cathodes at levels too large for chemical transformation" (McKubre, ibid.). Heat seldom exceeds 1 W. See Fig. 4: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/StormsEstatusofcoa.pdf - Jed
