Google Alerts alerted me to this:
http://www.aetherometry.com/correa_nuclear_fusion.html
Correa makes weird claims about calorimetry, especially Mizuno, and
Figure 1 in the Hagelstein paper:
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Hagelsteinnewphysica.pdf
"Lastly, the Cold Fusion literature is riddled with
defective experiments. The Ohmori-Mizuno Aqueous Glow Discharge is one
example among all too many. If the presentations made by the six selected
laboratories were of comparably poor quality, it is not hard to
understand the skepticism about spurious measurements of unsustained
excess heat, a problem which seems to have bedeviled the field CF
researchers have claimed to have produced evidence of excess energy. This
determination, however, would have to have resulted from the comparison
of two time integrals - for input and output power, respectively - made
for contemporary time intervals and, in particular, for time intervals
which would include the actual beginning of the experiment and continue
until either the temperature of the CF cell had returned to the baseline
or the stimulating current had been discontinued. Rarely has such
determination been made properly. Glaring failures, like that of the
Ohmori-Mizuno device, occurred precisely because the selected time
intervals did not extend to the completion of the experiment. Fig. 1 of
the submitted review is one other example. Given such omissions, little
can be ascertained about the reality of claims of excess energy,
specifically in the form of excess heat."
I cannot imagine what Correa has in mind here. Mizuno and Ohmori both
measure every joule from the moment the power is turned on until the cell
returns to room temperature. Figure 1 looks about the same to me. Correa
may have a point, buried somewhere under the layers of rhetoric, but I'll
be darned if I can find it. Anyway he is the last person who should be
criticizing other people's calorimetry.
I was a little surprised to find that Correa pays attention to me and my
statements on this forum. For the record, I pay no attention to
him.
- Jed
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