on 11/28/04 2:04 AM, Horace Heffner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 11:11 PM 11/27/4, Harry Veeder wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This is my first post. >> >> I was wondering if anyone in CF community has looked for evidence of a >> correlation between the orientation of a CF cell and the amount of excess >> heat produced. >> >> Perhaps the performance of a CF cell would change if the cell or some of its >> parts were rotated 90 degrees or even spun. >> >> This questions are based on the speculation that the direction of gravity >> (rather than the magnitude of gravity) may effect the performance of CF >> cells. >> >> Harry Veeder > > > I don't know of any gravitational effects related to actual CF. However, > Mitchell Schwartz, who posts here sometimes and is publiher of COLD FUSION > TIMES, has published on the existence of *calorimetry anomalies* relating > to gravity. Issues related to convection and stratification are important > to the design of reliable calorimeters. Improperly designed calorimeters > can give false data regarding CF. Calorimetry is vitally important to the > study of CF because the heat signature of CF does not appear concurrent > with the high energy particle emissions characteristic of hot fusion. > > Regards, > > Horace Heffner
Thanks, but please don't get me wrong. I am not insinuating that gravity is generating misleading calorimetric measurements. Rather I am suggesting gravity plays a significant role in the creation of excess heat, even though the leading theories of gravity imply it can be ignored. Harry
