I wrote:
> Thus far, there is no evidence of a self-running system. Celani, at one of >> his demos, spoke as if he had accomplished this, but later retracted . . . >> > > No, he did not claim that. Not in discussions with me, anyway. He said he > will increase insulation and he hopes to reduce input to zero. > As you can see from the videos, Celani's English is sometimes hard to understand. It would not surprise me if some people got the mistaken impression this is what he claimed. However, I am sure he did not. I talked with him and with Brian from NI. Neither of them said he has already run the Ni wire system without input heating power. They both said he hopes to increase the insulation, heat the system, and then turn off the heating, to let it run for an extended period. Several days or weeks. That is what he is doing. He has reduced the input power. As of a few weeks ago when I last heard from him, he had not eliminated it completely, but that is his goal. Some people at ICCF17 criticized Celani's approach. They felt it would better for him to build something like a flow calorimeter, which can measure the heat with much more confidence. Then he can be sure the heat is real even with some level of input power. I prefer Celani's approach, but I can see these critics have a valid point of view, and their method has some advantages. Celani does have a precision flow calorimeter. He has used it for Ni-H studies. But not with this particular material and this system. It would not work. He would have to re-engineer the instrument, he says. I am not sure why. I think the sample is too big, and it runs too hot. - Jed
