Caveat: There is no present indication that an automotive catalytic converter (CC) will show thermal gain in an unpowered hydrogen experiment, similar to Cravens work - but essentially there is a valid expectation of this result, based on experiments going back to Arata... and it is easily demonstrated.
Once a particular brand, or type of CC has been identified as active, then
it would be significant if a half dozen experimenters - or possibly many
more- were able to verify the ongoing thermal anomaly in different parts of
the US and the World - but all using unpowered experiments in the
Arata-to-Cravens tradition.
Essentially this kind of democratic experimental base - and hopefully a
positive end-result is was what A. Lomax was trying to do with his LENR
kits. I'm not sure how that went over, but it was probably doomed by
complexity and cost.
However, this type of CC demonstration would be more dramatic and cheaper,
since it gets away from deuterium and promises significant output. The CC
are mass-produced devices, coming from low wage suppliers, and there is
certainly no more efficient way to get large amount of catalytic transition
metals onto a ceramic support.
In short, this could be a great opportunity for grass-root science to be
able to stuff a bit of experimental truth about LENR down the collective
throats of ivory tower skeptics...
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The thread about the H-Cat, as an inexpensive but meaningful
experiment in its base-level incarnation - raised the possibility that an
automotive catalytic converter ($40 -$100) - filled with hydrogen. It could
show a steady temperature gain over ambient of more than Cravens' ongoing
gain of 5 degrees - essentially for years.
That kind of experiment would cost a few hundred,
out-of-pocket dollars for any garage lab with hydrogen, a datalogging PC,
thermocouples and about a square meter of space to spare. To actually burn
the hydrogen is counter-productive for proving gain.
From: James Bowery
How expensive is it to replicate?
http://www.infinite-energy.com/images/pdfs/NIWeekCravens.pdf
Cravens experiment was ongoing at infinite
COP for 2.5 months before NI Week, and he indicated that he would keep it
going (that needs to be confirmed).
If true, this one has been ongoing for
almost 10 months at infinite COP.
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