Jones--
I do not think you give Ross AND Focardi enough credit for doing good research.
They just did not talk about it. Rossi's reaction did not just happen by luck
in my estimation. Nevertheless, I agree that the Mizuno work seems to look at
dynamic parameters in attempting to understand the reactions that are
occurring. The details of the method they used to determine the mass of the
circulating gas species would be nice to know in detail--did it in fact entail
the addition of magnetic fields. And if the reactor is not sealed, how did they
account for the mass balance (and mass ratios) of gases coming out (and going
in) if there was an addition with time. Rossi may not have done dynamic
monitoring of his reaction products, but I believe he destructively examined
the hundreds of runs he claims to have made in perfecting his reactor with good
up-to-date technology that Focardi was familiar with and apparently had access
to.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: Jones Beene
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 8:54 AM
Subject: RE: [Vo]:More on the Mizuno presentation
From: Bob Cook
I would have said that Storms process would have seen an increase in atomic 4
mass in the form of 4He. NRL indicated that there was a production of He in
their Pd experiments consistent with Storms proposed process. Storms has long
said on this blog that his theory was reflects the data. I would say the
Mizuno tests, if the conclusion on the decrease of atomic mass 4 is correct,
contradicts Storms theory.
IMHO, this experiment does not contradict - so much as it adds another route
to gain.
Storm's theory is applicable to some experiments more than others, but this
one is not one of them, since amu of the reactant gas is going down instead of
up.
In fact, in earlier work, Mizuno says that he believes that deuterium fuses
to helium, but that cannot be the case here, since they is not increase in
amu=4 and in fact it is going the other way.
This only reinforces the notion that LENR is a mélange of many energetic
reactions, some of which are more favored than others but the same experiment
can have several routes operating at once.
Because this experiment is so well done - and so impressive in its
thoroughness, it looks to be the best thing to happen in the LENR field for
many years
(including Rossi, which was grossly deficient and substandard in the details.
although curiously, this work validates AR, in ways that his own work cannot)
