Russ <[email protected]> wrote:
> Fleischmann after some years fessed up to cold fusion peers and noted that > the hotter one runs cold fusion experiments the better! > Well, not "some years." Fleischmann and Pons' first paper mentioned it, and they discussed it many times in lectures and papers. They referred to it as "positive feedback." See, for example: *Calorimetry of the PD-D2O System: from Simplicity via Complications to Simplicity* "The fact that (Qf)2 > (Qf)4 as well as other features of the experiments, shows that there is an element of “positive feedback” between the increase of temperature and the rate of generation of excess enthalpy. . . . The D+ is then retained in the cathodes and we take advantage of the “positive feedback” between the temperature and the rate of excess enthalpy generation to drive the cells to the boiling point, Fig 6." http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Fleischmancalorimetra.pdf *More about Positive Feedback; more about Boiling* http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/PonsSproceeding.pdf#page=157 http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/EPRIproceeding.pdf#page=23 He discussed this with Miles and others. See: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Fleischmanlettersfroa.pdf Storms and several other researchers also made this point. Storms thinks that the current density coefficient in McKubre's equation should be replaced with temperature. In other words, it is not current density that triggers the reaction, but rather the elevated temperature caused by high current density. - Jed
