Fran Tanzella presented MoM1-3, about Brillouin Energy Corp. He described the theory which is of no interest to me, and then the calorimetry. They used two kinds of calorimeters. The first was okay but not impressive. The second was a flow calorimeter with very good recovery, something like 97%. Fran was impressed, and if he is impressed so am I. They have gotten up to 100% output with this (twice input, in other words).
SRI has not yet brought this in house so they cannot be absolutely certain of the results. The input power waveform is complicated. It is conceivable there is something wrong there but Fran does not seem worried about that. They have remarkably good control. They change a parameter and the heat effect goes away. They change it back and the heat soon returns at a level close to what it was before. Control is the critical element missing from cold fusion, in my opinion. Celani also seems to have good control. He has not presented yet but we have heard a lot about it informally. We have not yet seen the device. Robert Duncan says he thinks the calorimetry is okay. If anything, conservative. Of course it is crude, since this is something like a trade show demonstration rather than a laboratory experiment. Peter Mobberley was scheduled to present information from Piantelli, but Paintelli called at the last minute and asked him to withdraw. No presentation, no poster session. He even withdrew results shown previously. I gather this is because of intellectual property concerns. You might say he is in commercial development mode. Defkalion presented the same talk they gave at NIWeek. Not sure if that is online or if the slides are available. I will try to get them and upload them if they are not available. A lot more details about the Ni materials and the triggering with spark plugs, but no experimental data. A lot of talk about theory. - Jed
