Jed,
You probably remember Tom Droege the Electrical Engineer from Fermi
lab. He had a live P&F replication running for few months and would post
his latest measurements in Usenet's sci.physics.fusion group. I think he
did eventually publish a conference paper on coloremetry, but his eventual
conclusion was he could not replicate the P&F effect. Now there is back
story to this. Tom and I got to be collaborators on a post analysis of
one of his cells. At the time, I had access to state of the art EDAX system
on an Electron Microscope. It was no wonder why he never got excess heat!
He had a huge hunk of metal to load! No wonder it took him two months!
It was shaped like and about the same size as a big 1000mg fish oil
capsule. It was spilt all the way down it's length from the swelling and
loading.
Anyway, the EDAX plots I sent him where pretty incredible. The EDAX was
from x-ray back scatter analysis of the surface of his electrode, and it
was covered with *tons* of junk. Most from his counter electrode, but one
element stood out as weird; yttrium. Tom was very excited about that
finding and even had a theory that yttrium would appear in D+Pd nuclear
reaction. All of that passed with Tom, I suspect.
Best Regards,
Chuck
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <a...@lomaxdesign.com> wrote:
>
>
>> See, almost immediately, after the announcement, a huge number of groups
>> started to attempt replication.
>
>
> People often say this, but I do not see much evidence for it. As far as I
> know, during the first year roughly 150 to 200 groups attempted to
> replicate. After a year roughly 100 succeeded. That's not a huge number.
>
> See:
>
> http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/WillFGgroupsrepo.pdf
>
> There may have been others but they never published, so they are lost to
> history. If people did not even publish, I do not take them seriously.
>
>
> I'm not looking up Lewis' paper at this point. What I know is that Lewis
>> tried to replicate, not knowing what to do. He failed to replicate, that's
>> obvious.
>
>
> Incorrect. He probably succeeded. He did not realize that. His analysis
> was wrong. See my paper and the papers by Noninski and Miles linked to it.
>
> As I said, my paper is here:
>
> http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJhownaturer.pdf
>
> I added the date to it per Haiko's suggestion. Thanks.
>
> - Jed
>
>
