I see two simple demo that just need near criticality, this mean high COP (like 20), thus probably insulation:
first proposal is having a visibly small energy source, like a AA battery, that control the reactor so it produce clearly more heat that what the battery can feed. the second is to have a Stirling engine that recycle heat into electricity. but you have to use probably super-capacitors, that any good skeptic will assume is full of plutonium with alien TEG. the risk is only that high COP might be unstable (High COP should be easy by insulation, because of positive thermal feedback that Celani proved). One trick that Celani could use is the method of Defkalion, adapted to wires : first you heat the wire, and keep the heat by good insulation, near but below criticality. then you send short pulse of electricity in the wire, to accelerate the reaction (celani said that electricity is much more efficient than heat), get supercritical ... but then stop and get subcritical, avoiding meltdown... all of that under smart control. this method might be patented (pending) by DGT, but it is a demo, and DGT should not worry that someone else make indirectly advertising to their patent, provided there is no sale . one advice is that the components should be the best possible density (supercap, accumulators, thermal engine), because the skeptics will assume that it is hidden energy source. 2012/8/22 Axil Axil <[email protected]> > If Celani wanted to demonstrate an easily detectable LENR reaction, he > would only need to multiply the number of wires he uses in his device by 10 > or 100. A 150 or 1500 watt excess output would be hard to misinterpret. > Cheers: Axil > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Akira Shirakawa <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> It's true that the calorimetry shown is currently not conclusive, but >>> will this matter anymore once he manages to run it in self-sustaining or >>> mostly self-sustained mode? >>> >> >> I do not know what a "mostly" self-sustaining mode would be. A fully >> self-sustaining run lasting more than 10 minutes with no temperature >> decline would be irrefutable proof that the effect is real, and anomalous. >> There is less than a gram of wire in the cell plus hydrogen gas. There is >> no doubt the heat originates at the wire. There are no chemical changes to >> any of the materials in the cell. So once you eliminate all doubts about >> the calorimetry, by making it self-sustain, any measurable amount of heat >> is anomalous. >> >> He plans to let it run for a week or more. That is thousands of times >> longer than you need to make the case. Why not go for thousands? -- good >> idea. >> >> If Celani can make it self sustain, this will be as conclusive and >> irrefutable as the Fleischmann and Pons boil off experiments of 1992, which >> produced massive heat after death. It was easily measured and far beyond >> the limits of chemistry. See: >> >> http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Fleischmancalorimetra.pdf >> >> These 1992 experiments did not convince any prominent skeptics, because >> those people are pathological skeptics who have abandoned the scientific >> method. Or because they are scientific illiterates such as Taubes, the >> Wikipedia editors, or your typical mass media "science writer." They do not >> understand middle-school level science. They have no idea what "the limits >> of chemistry" or "4 eV per atom" means. >> >> A self-sustaining gas loaded experiment by Celani will not convince these >> people. They will: >> >> 1. Ignore the results OR, >> >> 2. Misunderstand the results. >> >> 2. Come up with absurd reasons to dismiss the results. >> >> 3. Accuse Celani of lying. >> >> You must ignore such people to preserve your sanity. Dealing with them is >> a no-win proposition. Never try to address their concerns. They will only >> invent one crazy objections after another. Like the people who claimed that >> thousands of thirsty rats invaded Mizuno's laboratory every night to drink >> the hot water in the bucket during his heat-after-death event. Or this >> nutcase Rep. Akin -- a member of the House Committee on Science, Space, and >> Technology committee no less! -- who imagines that women's bodies have a >> magical ability to avoid pregnancy after rape. >> >> If Celani takes the right steps he can easily convince a hundred thousand >> sane, professional scientists and engineers. The right steps include: >> >> 1. Allow independent observers to confirm the result. >> >> 2. Present the results in a properly written paper with lots of details >> and data. >> >> 3. Allow me and others to upload the paper, the full dataset from the >> instruments, photos, papers from the independent observers, and other proof >> of the claim. >> >> As I said in presentation at ICCF17, addressing the researchers, "[if you >> will only do this] you will be believed, you will be funded, and we will >> triumph." >> >> >> Whether Celani or any of the others will follow my advice or not I cannot >> predict. So far, every cold fusion researcher who has had the opportunity >> to convince the public has failed to do so. >> >> People such as Patterson and Rossi failed deliberately. They went out of >> their way to avoid convincing the public, because that is their market >> strategy. Patterson told me so. Rossi has not told me that, but it is the >> only explanation I can imagine for his "no tests!" policy. I mean the fact >> that he refused to let me and many others spend a few minutes confirming >> his claims with proper instruments. We offered; he said no. Emphatically >> no. There has to be a reason. Since he *did* allow other highly >> qualified to people to verify the effect independently, but only under >> NDAs, I assume he doe not want people to know for sure his claims are true. >> That is not an unusual business strategy. >> >> - Jed >> >> >
