The dynamics of this experiment, despite its unsatisfactory conclusion, beg to be repeated but with adequate controls and protection. As Jed implies, Mizuno is probably doing just that...
I do not think so. Unless this was an ordinary electrochemical explosion, I doubt that Mizuno has the slightest idea how to re-create it. Consider this: he has been doing glow discharge experiments for years, perhaps a thousand times. It only exploded once, and as far as he knows conditions were no different this time than they were in previous experiments. The run was only beginning. The water was still at room temperature. It is hard to imagine anything he might have done in the first few minutes of the experiment that might have triggered anything like a cold fusion reaction. He would have to do another five or 10 years of experiments before it happened again at random. He does not have 10 more years. He does not even have 5 more year before he reaches mandatory retirement.
As for triggering hydrino reactions . . . I am sure he has no clue how to do that. There are no detectors or instruments that would tell him he is stoking up hydrinos, or doing whatever it takes to make a batch of them go off at once. (Actually, as Ed points out, they should all *form* at once, which seems even more problematic.) If this is a hydrino event, he could not possibly re-create it because he would be working in the dark with no instruments, knowledge what techniques that would tell him current hydrino status.
If ozone has anything to do with it he would be in a much better position of course. I expect he knows how to detect and deal with ozone.
Is there any reason to think the SRI incident could have been related to this?
None whatever. It was completely explained by conventional chemistry. The SRI incident did not take much energy because the steel cell acted as a rocket. The total energy release was 39,700 J. (See ICCF3, p. 144) As I said, a bullet is much more destructive than a firecracker, even when they use the same amount of gunpowder.
- Jed
