Mary Yugo <[email protected]> wrote: > > That's completely wrong-- both sides of it. If P&F are correct, that does > not mean that Rossi's entirely different claim is correct. >
I do not know anyone else who says it is entirely different. When many experiments in different laboratories all show anomalous heat from metal hydrides, with Pd, Ni and Ti, most people say they are mutually supportive. That is why replications are considered valuable. The similarities seem obvious to me. I can't imagine why you think they have no commonality. Do you suppose the mechanism that produces excess heat in Ni is completely unrelated to the mechanism in Pd or Ti? Do you also think that Arata's claims have nothing to do with Fleischmann's? (Arata says that! He claims to be sui generis.) > Rossi claims way more power and uses different materials. > No, he does not claim way more power. Adjusting for the mass of reactant it is about the same as Fleischmann and Pons boiling experiments. Some of them went for months with steady state power. It is also about the same power density as one of Italian Ni experiments at high temperature, but for the life of me, I cannot recall which one. The materials are different from F&P but as I said, Fleischmann was the first to suggest the use of "spongy nickel" so he gets some credit for the idea. - Jed
