Jones— This puts the anticipated Rossi demonstration into perspective. Forcardi was a key advisor for Rossi almost 20 years after the 1993 event. I am optimistic about tomorrows demonstration.
IMHO the R&D associated with engineered, coherent, nano-materials and their manipulation via the creation of electromagnetic resonances within individual coherent systems has been most important. R&D success is in the details of the design using a rough understanding of the LENR phenomena in an iterative process of constantly improved design with higher COP’s. Have a good one and not half baked, Bob Cook From: JonesBeene<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2017 8:14 AM To: Vortex List<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [Vo]:On this date in ... Thanksgiving was once a thankful time. On this date in 1993 Piantelli and Focardi had just performed what was the World’s first successful long-term Ni-H gas phase LENR experiment. The prior work of Mills is not nuclear, according to him. The Thermacore meltdown happened in 1996. No radiation was seen by Piantelli and no evidence of anything nuclear was shown - so it is not clear if it was LENR or some other anomaly. Summary results: Cell "A" produced 39 watts of heat for 278 days. The integrated excess energy was 900 MJ. The other cell was less gainful. The input power required to maintain the unloaded Ni sample at a fixed temperature can be up to twice the one required for the loaded Ni. This power imbalance ca be considered the gain of the system, even without confirming calorimetry. The actual gain ratio (COP) is nevertheless in the range of 1.5 This paper was believable and many dozens of similar papers since then have demonstrated about the same level of COP in Ni-H gas phase, which is in the range of 50% more thermal power out than electrical power in. The most believable report was from Thermacore, since they were World leaders in thermodynamics. They ran for over a year at COP of about 1.5. Here we are - decades later and with more questions than answers. Some experimenters who reported small gain years ago (Ahern) think there is almost no future in the field since the COP has remained too low to attract interest. Many observers would be very satisfied to see a bona fide and reliable COP level which is greater than 2 if it can be independently verified. Verification/replication is the key.
