See:
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MilesMreportonca.pdf
Miles, M., Report on Calorimetric Studies at the
NHE Laboratory in Sapporo, Japan. Infinite Energy, 2000. 5(30): p. 22.
This has some important perspectives on replication, especially:
"The fact that the alternative NHE methods showed
no excess heat for F-P cells illustrates the
problem in transferring calorimetric methods from
one laboratory to another. The second laboratory
often fails to follow directions and makes
changes that compromise the calorimetry. Similar
problems were encountered in the attempt to
transfer the China Lake calorimetry to the Naval
Research Laboratory (NRL). Various changes made
by NRL greatly increased the calorimetric error
to ±200 mW, hence excess heat was not observed
[4,9]. This failure to reproduce the China Lake
experiments at NRL resulted in the termination of
Navy funding for cold fusion in 1995. Similarly,
the initial failure of NHE to reproduce the
Fleischmann-Pons experiments [6], contributed to
the termination of the Japan program in 1998."
I have had this paper lying around for ages. I
forgot to upload it, I am sorry to say.
- Jed
