Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6id5Hf-xMWOYXVjekJCN1ZkQk0/edit?pli=1 > > > > In this research paper by Piantelli, Slide 27 PROVES that transmutation of > multiple elements from a nickel starting point is the cause of heat > production in the Ni/H reaction. >
That is impressive. Piantelli is pretty good. Unfortunately, no one has been able to replicate his solid Ni bar experiment. That does not mean it is wrong. It is close enough to other Ni experiments that it has credibility. Some people worry about his calorimetry. See below. Slide 27 shows two spectra. One for a section of the rod where there was no energy production, and the other for a section where there was production. My question: How can he tell where on the bar the energy production occurred? I don't see how he could, with that calorimeter. I suppose he would need an IR camera inside the cell. It says ". . . energy production as measured by means of the external cell surface." I guess that means they can measure sections of the external surface. It is surprising to me that the heat from the bar still forms a coherent pattern by the time it reaches the external surface. > Please supply references that contradict this experimental result and > support your opinions to the opposite. > Doubts about the calorimetry are here: http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/CerronZebainvestigat.pdf I do not know of anyone else who has tried this exact method of calorimetry. I do not know if there are doubts about the mass spectroscopy, but spectroscopy is a difficult art. You need multiple replications to be sure it is working. I would describe this as promising but not a sure thing. - Jed
