Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote:
> Not to put word in his mouth, or your memory, but I suspect that what he > told you was he could not be sure the gain did not come from recombination > effects. > He meant the calorimetry was not accurate enough to ensure the results were above recombination. I agree with his conclusion. I spent a lot of time looking at data from that kind of calorimetry, which Mallove was also doing, in cooperation with Srinivasan. > JR: How could they have done it earlier? Arata and Mills did not emerge > until the mid-1990s.**** > > ** ** > > Mills was publishing in 1990, and Thermacore has started work on their > project for DARPA that same year. **** > > ** ** > > Mills first paper in *Fusion Technology* was 1991 IIRC. > SRI's publication quoted by Krivit makes it clear they were keeping track of the research. They were stretched thin and could not try every promising technique. They wasted no time. - Jed
