Perhaps the initial response was too harsh … as this could be important – but Mills has a long history of trying to “buy” academic support for his theory, in various subtle ways like this – with the result being that at least one Professor was fired for not disclosing the personal contacts and more should have been.
Nevertheless – thanks for finding and reporting on this, Steve – as it could be the first step in getting the experiment done correctly by someone who is truly independent. As you note: it seems remarkably simple to do, and many variations can be imagined unless Mills has hidden an important detail behind an NDA. (his usual scheme) If there really is a COP>3 thermal anomaly in a ferrous hydroxide – then this would be a major find. It does point to the Rossi effect however instead of hydrinos. Isn’t this Miley’s former alma mater? It should not be hard to entice associates to look into this… However - it took me all of 45 seconds to find an alternative explanation for the gain. Turns out that FeOOH is a photochemical catalyst for water splitting, previously not well-known as such. Did Glumac insure against light and water splitting as the source of gain? http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja411835a Dunno – But it is not too much to ask that a professor who puts his name, and that of a prestigious University, on a report that will be used for financial benefit to the funding group - to at least look for alternative explanations – or at least have the work validated by someone else in the Department? As mentioned, this kind of end-run around science fits Mills’ past tactic$ perfectly, and there are numerous red flags pointing to another round of false promises from BLP, leading up to yet another plea for more investment with hardly a mention of the past failures … this could in fact amount to nothing less than the obit for CIHT… RIP. From: Carl High Well, Jones, to be fair to Dr Glumac, I do not see where he is verbalizing support for Mills' theoretical underpinnings. Scientific progress is based on having the funds and initiative to move forward. It is not surprising that as a contractee to Mills, Glumac was not asked to check for photon emission the absence of which would tend to invalidate Mills' hypothesis. It is Sunday morning and as a nominal Christian my little prayer for the day would be that a fellow scientist to Glumac would notice this report and have the guts and initiative (and the funds) to replicate the work as well as check for photon emission. Reproducibility is the bugbear of the LENR field. This experiment seems to be astonishingly simple from a technologic perspective, take some chemicals you bought from Sigma-Aldrich and heat them to 300 degrees Steve High http://www.blacklightpower.com/wp-content/uploads/papers/GlumacReportwithGraphics2014.pdf
