I've taken a closer look at Naudin's posted results and read Moller's "Irving Langmuir and Atomic Hydrogen". Some comments.
Naudin is using flow calorimetry, which is simple, substantially self-calibrating and legitimate. No more is needed for the size of the effect he observes. You just measure the input and output water temperatures and the flow rate. The question is what is actually happening in the reactor. He uses DC drive on the filament as a reference, and 10 Hz pulses to drive the temperature up into the hydrogen dissociation zone. Using Lanmur's data only a very small fraction of the hydrogen is dissociated below the melting point of tungsten. No reason is given for not running the tests at DC, except possible driving a dissociation-recombination cycle. I am told that 2H>H2, recombination, is a three-body reaction, the third body carries away the heat of recombination. That third body presumeably can be the reactor walls, which may explain the action of atomic hydrogen and other plasma welders. Moller's review of Langmuir's work is tantalizing with impressive numbers, but no details of how the measurements were actually conducted. Quite unsuspected at the time was the possibility of the hydrogen BLP catalysis reaction. If Langmuir's data on the percent of dissociation as a function of tungsten temperature is correct, the Mills thermal reactor haeater is just barely effective. The dissociation percent is a very strong function of temperature and one wonders *why*. As I said before, the Phillips paper discusses many reactions that can go once H(1/2) is produced. Naudin does very neat construction, good photographs, interesting results but leaves dangling many unanswered questions. Moller assumes ZPE as the energy release mechanism, but the BLP reaction could produce the observed results and further experiments are needed. Mike Carrell
