Hi Jed,
When you say they cleaned it, what exactly did they do? Do you mean
vacuum pumping it? Or rinsing it with H2? Or did they somehow give
treatment to the wire? If this step apparently is so important and
leaving it out is prohibitive for the results, I'd like to understand
that better.
One thing I also fail to understand of Celani's setup is when he talks
about switching from the "active" (treated) wire to the "inactive"
(stock ISOTAN44?) wire as a control experiment. As far as I understand,
both wires are in the tube simultaneously. What does this switching
comprise of? Is he applying a DC current to the wire? (And -- just to
make sure I understand -- this then is different from the power applied
to the heater?)
Thanks!
Andre
On 08/14/2012 01:14 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Celani has set up his demonstration cell. The people from TI reworked
the instruments and the LabView code that collects data. They did a
beautiful job. Celani just told me that he inputs 48 W constantly.
This morning it did not work. They ran it and let it cool to clean it.
They tried again about an hour ago and it began to produce ~4 W excess
fairly soon. It climbs gradually up to ~20 W gradually and stays
stable after that.
Very impressive. Peter Hagelstein considers this an important experiment.
All of the papers from this conference have already been submitted
(except mine) and will be on line soon. (Mine is not ready because
they told me a week beforehand to write one.)
- Jed
