Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]> wrote: (One skeptic has asserted that a hotter cell would leak more helium, say if > seals were disturbed by the heat. As is common with pseudoskeptics, the > explanations are fabricated and asserted as facts, when, for example, SRI > used flow calorimetry, which maintained cell temperature at a constant > value, so the "excess heat" is measured by the reduced power needed to keep > the cell at constant temperature. Thus this would not be expected to have > any effect on helium. In most PdD cold fusion, the temperature rise is > small.) >
I do not know which skeptic asserted this, but I asked Miles about this hypothesis. He pointed out that the total heat coming from the cells includes heat from electrolysis plus anomalous heat. This total heat does not correlate with helium. In some cases, there was no anomalous heat but electrolysis heat alone was higher than runs with anomalous heat. In these cases helium did not exceed the cell background. (I do not mean the atmospheric background, which is much higher.) - Jed
