Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
> No, I do not. I require complete descriptions of experiments,
I believe Ed Storms published a complete description of his recent
experiments with gas phase LENR and radiation generation, didn't he?
I think we need an even more comprehensive description of some
successful experiments, with more photographs and other information.
Ed's papers are excellent in this regard, and Celani's latest paper
has more details (partly at my recommendation). We need more like
this. Papers should not be limited to 5 or 10 pages; we could use one
that is 100 pages long. So far, only Fleischmann has produced
anything like that and unfortunately it is not in electronic format
and I cannot easily upload it. We should display some of the complete
data sets using the techniques used at the Energy Information
Administration which are presented in Microsoft Excel format and in
graphs linked to tables with the underlying data.
Incidentally, they have an interesting revision of their Primary
Energy Consumption diagram showing more clearly the dominance of
petroleum and the percent of each sector each fuel source contributes to:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/pecss_diagram.html
We also need descriptions along the lines of the document published
by EPRI, as I mentioned. See:
McKubre, M.C.H., et al., Development of Advanced Concepts for Nuclear
Processes in Deuterated Metals. 1994, EPRI.
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/McKubreMCHdevelopmen.pdf
Does Johnson-Matthey "Type A" palladium still work?
Fleischmann and I do not know. The manufacturing method was changed
sometime after 1989 to reduce toxicity during manufacturing. The
newer formulation probably works.
Note that "Type A" is Fleischmann's designation for the palladium
alloy made by Johnson Matthey for use in hydrogen filters. It was
developed in the 1930s. When Fleischmann & Pons began experimental
work on cold fusion, Fleischmann called Johnson Matthey, explain what
he wanted to do and ask them to recommend what type of palladium to
use. They recommended this type, for obvious reasons.
You can see the performance of this type of palladium compared to
other types in Table 10, p. 44 of this document:
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MilesManomalousea.pdf
What Fleischmann calls Type A is referred to here as "M (F/P) Pd,"
and I think "P/F) Pd."
Researchers at BARC used an actual hydrogen filter machine with the
palladium in place to successfully replicate cold fusion in 1989.
I.e., is it possible to put together a reproducible experiment around
their cathode material?
I do not know. I was not able to purchase any. They wanted $50,000
for a minimum order. I could not find any researchers who wanted to
share the expense and commit to using some of the material. I myself
have no use for $50,000 worth of palladium. Johnson Matthey also want
to know how we wanted the stuff prepared; i.e. in rods, foils of
various thicknesses or some combination. Unless the researchers tell
me in advance what shape of and size of palladium samples they want
to test I cannot purchase it, even if I have $50,000 burning a hole
in my pocket -- which I do not!
**NOTE** : Little's description covers a number of web pages -- his
initial rather sketchy efforts to repro Mizuno's results, which efforts
by Little Jed has disparaged in the past, were followed by a series of
experiments in which Little tried to exactly reproduce every step of
Mizuno's experiment, including run times, transparency of the
calorimeter to make visual monitoring of the arc feasible, cooling
curves, the works.
I disparaged it mainly because he made too few attempts in my opinion
and in Mizuno's opinion. After Mizuno heard about this experiment
from Ohmori, and observed Ohmori perform it several times, Mizuno
set about doing it himself. He continued without success for about
six months as I recall. He tried it hundreds of times before learning
the technique. So I strongly recommend that anyone who wants to do
this should first observe someone during the experiment and then be
prepared to spend a year or two trying to replicate.
This experiment is more of an art than a science. It resembles
Japanese metallurgical crafts such as making sword blades. If there
is any "trick" to it I would say it is that you have to reduce power
to below the threshold level that it takes to initiate a plasma in
the first place. I hope I made that fact clear to Little. I certainly
told him enough times.
This experiment is also dangerous. Mizuno was not able to do it after
the explosion.
- Jed
