Here is some more information which comes out of the MIT colloquium on what could be a major advance in the making. This information is third hand, so it needs to be confirmed.
Let's hope that Jed can use his considerable influence to get hold of this paper, which is an update and significant advance from this prior work from last year. http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MizunoTmethodofco.pdf See Table 2 of that paper. These details would be a long-term run similar to those short term runs 1) The hero effort was for over 30 days continuous - with a COP of ~1.9 2) Something like 70 watts in and 130 thermal watts out 3) The input power is resistance heat (like Rossi) during the run and NOT the glow discharge as reported earlier 4) However, a glow discharge was applied for about one day to condition the nickel electrodes. It is said to form nanoparticles on the wire. 5) From the earlier paper and the SEM image (figure 19) the nanoparticles which are raised on the nickel look like bubbles or bumps instead of cracks. Without the glow discharge treatment there is NO GAIN. 6) About 20 grams of thin nickel wire was wound on a ceramic mandrel. This is over 100 meters of wire. 7) The wire was about .2 mm diameter 8) The gas was D2 but there seems to be some confusion on that - whether D2O (heavy water vapor) or D2. Results with H2 are also good in the prior paper. 9) Pressure was about 150 Pa or about .02 psi during glow discharge and higher during the run. 10) Radiation is seen but it is orders of magnitude too low to account for the heat, yet they seem to be certain that the reaction is nuclear fusion. 11) They believe the design will scale, and have a reactor nearly ready which is capable of 10 kW. 12) They think the COP will rise, rather than fall with scale up. All in all - this work seems to also validate Andrea Rossi to a great extent, since they clearly show that either D2 or H2 work with nickel which has nano surface features. This is very good news for LENR, due to the long run at relatively high power, at significant gain, along the reputation of Mizuno... ...not to mention the validation of Rossi - who may have already witnessed the higher power and higher COP, but we cannot be sure of Rossi - whereas this looks solid and professional.
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