From: Jed Rothwell
Your assessment may vary, but the pluses of [the Cravens
experiment] are: that it is simple, understated, essentially unpowered,
solid state, robust, long-running, well-constructed, and the error
possibilities are greatly reduced.
IOW it is "elegant" to the extreme. The highest compliment
that can be
leveled at any breakthrough experiment in LENR is
"elegance."
….The one thing it lacks is a way to estimate the anomalous
power output. This can be fixed. You could put a resistance heater in the
dummy sphere. Or in another sphere. You power up the dummy sphere until the
temperature reaches the level of the active sphere. I would like to see
Dennis try this. (Hint, hint!)
Even that is overly complicated. “Rumor has it” that the next version, and
this makes perfect sense, will have only one well-insulated reactor with the
excess heat passing through a TEG and powering a LED.TEG are inefficient, as we know – 5% at best and probably 2% at this temperature, but if the LED is lit only by the anomalous heat of the system - who cares? The total anomalous heat can be estimated based on the LED power. If true - this would qualify as the first stand-alone LENR system which is proved to produce excess power while having no need for outside power input… (assuming that it is insulated well-enough). Rossi may claim that distinction in a much higher output regime, but he has never proved it, in the sense of showing a completely autonomous system, unconnected to the grid, to an independent observer.
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