From: Jed Rothwell
"Recalescence" can be a deadly phenomenon in some situations. It is a sudden burst of heat during cooling. In fact, recalescence is the prototypical version of "heat after death". The death toll in steel mills . . . Ah, I see. Thank you for explaining this. It would appear these heat releases associated with phase changes are very rapid, one time surge of heat. The heat after death reported by Fleischmann, Rossi and others lasted for a long time. The heat was steady for hours or days. I do not think the phase change heat release you describe can account for these events. Recalescence may not be related to this phenomenon. I would love to see the best available chart of "heat-after-death," showing the thermal curve for a substantial time frame after electrical power has been cut. Do you know of one example in the Library, which is most illustrative of the phenomenon? Yes, recalescence relates to "far from equilibrium" conditions, and cannot by itself account for gain over hours, or net gain. It is fully conservative, unless it stimulates a secondary reaction. However, what I was intending to convey (and doing a poor job of it) is that recalescence could be more than the driving force for a one-time burst of heat, insofar as that transition itself then stimulates further nuclear reactions in loaded Pd (when no electrical power is present). There could be a string of peaks and valleys in temperature, where the phase structure of the electrodes would revert to a lower entropy, following a bunching of fusion reactions, and then the process would repeat - in see-saw fashion for an extended time period. This would be obvious form a thermal chart. If such a chart of heat-after-death exists - and it were to show some kind of see-saw or up-and-down shape, as opposed to a flat continuity of temperature, then that would be consistent with the modality which I'm trying to describe. If not, and the thermal curve is nearly flat over time, then phase-transitions do not play a meaningful role.
