On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]>wrote:
None of what has been written recently in this thread addresses calorimetry > or any evidence of nuclear reactions, I want to make that clear. That > something gets hot sometimes and sometimes not isn't even close to such > evidence. > Appreciated. The thought was that if you could find a way to demonstrate LENR above the error threshold of a mercury thermometer, there could be some mischievous fun to be had in presenting the toy experiment to Lewis, who, it seems to me, made the fairly straightforward job of measuring the flux of heat in a cell into something inordinately complex. Which is not to say there are no subtleties in calorimetry; only that it should have been clear that one of the best electrochemists in his day would be able to work out the power emitted from a P&F cell above the error threshold, strongly suggesting that there was something going on besides experimental artifact. Instead, Lewis chose to attack the 1989 paper on methodological grounds. Eric
