Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
Ah, c'mon, Jed. For those of us who don't have the abstracts handy,
what's the punchline?
http://iccf15.frascati.enea.it/docs/Abstracts.pdf
Did it, or didn't it?
Did.
The text from the abstract is below, without the figure. I just went
to copy it to this message, and I come to find the whole darn book is
in image-Acrobat format. What a crock! What possesses people to use
this whacky fromat?!? I had to run it through an OCR program.
Google will find it, however. I determined that a couple of months
ago. However, it does not find this document, which I just determined
by searching for some sample text. Again, what a dumb way to do things!!!
- Jed
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DIURNAL VARIATIONS IN LENR EXPERIMENTS
David J. Nagel1, Tadahiko Mizuno2, Dennis Letts3
xThe George Washington University, Washington DC USA
Hokkaido University, Sapporo Japan
3 Letts lab, Austin TXUSA
Experimental setups and protocols, and theoretical explanations of
LENR, have been assumed to be independent of the time of day, that
is, they have no diurnal effects. But, such effects have been
measured by two of us. The figure shows daily Palladium loading and
pressure cycles in an experiment in Hokkaido University, with points
taken at four-hour intervals.
This paper presents and analyzes observed diurnal effects in two very
different electrochemical LENR experiments in Japan and the USA. The
goals of this paper are two-fold. The first is to determine if the
observed effects are some kind of artifact or else real variations of
a fundamental nature. Possible causes of diurnal effects are
enumerated and analyzed. The second motivation is to exploit the
observed variations, whatever their origins. The results could range
from mere discovery of a new type of experimental error to the
achievement of a remarkable new tool for cosmic ray studies.
If diurnal effects are artifacts, the measured dependence of the
characteristics and outputs of LENR experiments on the time of day
has implications for the proper conduct of such experiments. For
example, it might indicate something about the temperature or light
sensitivity of such experiments. Possibly, subtle and seldom-seen new
sources of errors in LENR experiments would be illuminated.
If the effects withstand scrutiny, and appear to be defendable
variations due to the rotation of the earth, then they might have
astrophysical implications. That is, maybe the output of LENR
experiments could be used as a relatively inexpensive detector for
some types of extra-terrestrial particles. The reality of diurnal
effects on LENR experiments could have implications for theories that
seek to explain lattice-enabled nuclear reactions.
The ability to suppress, induce or enhance diurnal effects in LENR
experiments might be a significant aspect of their controllability,
which will be needed for commercialization of LENR. Desirable future
work to verify and understand diurnal effects on LENR experiments
will be described.
