Here is some additional info on the 18-hour test. I do not think I will add this to the News section. It can wait for a paper from Levi. This may have been reported here by Cousin Peter:
Approximately 0.4 g of hydrogen was consumed in 18 hours. This is based on what sounds like a crude estimate to me: measuring the weight of the hydrogen tank before and after the test with the electronic weight scale. The weight scale has a margin of error of 0.1 gram. They measured a 0.3 g difference and they assume it was actually closer to ~0.4. Total energy production was ~1,037 MJ. This seems like much less than you get from a fusion reaction with 0.4 g of hydrogen. Hydrogen fusion yields 1.35 * 10E7 per kilogram says this source, Table 1: http://gltrs.grc.nasa.gov/reports/1996/TM-107030.pdf So for 0.4 g that would be 54,000 MJ. This is ~1000 MJ, so it is off by a factor of 54. I guess that isn't such a big difference given the crudeness of these measurements. My guess is that hydrogen leaking or absorbing into the materials far outweighs the hydrogen consumed by the reaction. Unless . . . UNLESS! . . . I don't know . . . unless Mills is right? Or the W-L theory is right? It ain't my bailiwick. The experts in theory such as Krivit can hash this out. - Jed
