David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote: May I inject an idea into this discussion? To activate the normal Mizuno > LENR reaction it is necessary to apply 20 watts for a short period of > time. One would certainly expect the rate of the reaction to drop if much > less instantaneous power is applied.
You get no reaction at all as far as I can tell. We tried some smaller pulses to confirm this -- both lower in power and shorter in duration. But the ambient noise was so great it is impossible to measure these pulses with confidence, or to know whether they triggered anomalous heat. I don't think they did. Mizuno deliberately picked pulses of this magnitude to produce the trigger temperature. These are the smallest pulses that: 1. Do the job; and 2. Can be measured with confidence. He ran much larger "pulses;" i.e., continuous power for a month, high enough to make the reactor too hot to touch. You cannot do adiabatic calorimetry in that case, needless to say. He used low power pulses in these tests at my request. I wanted to eliminate the noise from input electricity. This greatly reduces the magnitude of the anomalous heat but I think it improves the s/n ratio. It makes the results more clear and the calorimetry easier to understand. Easier for me, anyway. - Jed
