I wrote:
Important results:
Table 3, describing run 3:
There are many other important results. I am
working on understanding run #3, or what they call "Exp. 3" now.
Their comments:
"3.2.3. Exp. 3
Pd strip cathode characteristics: dimensions,
(1.27 x 4.16 × 0.02) cm3; weight, 1.226 g.
Electrolysis was always carried out at 0.023 A cm
2 (I= 0.243 A); since other current densities
were not used, maximum heat generation was
promoted by alternating electrolysis periods (two
or more days) with long o.c. interruptions. This
procedure also gave better knowledge of the
'after-effect', i.e. the heat output from
the deuteride electrode in the absence of electrolysis. . . .
Points to be noted are: (1) heat generation
(excess power output) under current flow
initially increased and then reached stable
values in about 4 days; (2) in contrast, the
'after-effect' steadily increased after each
electrolysis period; (3) power oscillations in
o.c. were mainly due to deuterium immissions into
the cell (see Section 3.5); (4) the time decay of
the 'after-effect' was very slow, as predicted.
The operating conditions and the excess power
actually measured in the several stages of the
experiments are reported in Table 3. A
quantitative energy balance could easily be
obtained from the power input and the output
integrated over 21 days, as shown in Table 3. Any
comment seems to be superfluous."
Table 3 shows 0.42 MJ, output 1.8 +/- 0.16 MJ, as I noted previously.
This is rather frustrating to me. Here we have a
spectacular paper buried in the literature, and
unavailable on the net. Add to this the set of
papers edited and published in a hardback book by
Marwan and Krivit at last year's ACS, and
probably this year's ACS as well. The book is
great. The editing is good. The presentation is
good. And the cost is $179. So you might as well
drop it down a well, because practically no one
is going to pay that kind of money for information on cold fusion.
If people were clamoring for information on cold
fusion then this book would be selling like
hotcakes. But they are not. By and large they are
still ignoring the subject. In the age of the
Internet, putting the information behind a price
barrier and a copyright barrier is tantamount to throwing it away.
- Jed
