On 2012-12-05 16:47, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Ain't that nice! This should encourage the M.F.M. people to keep at it.
It appears they have been already aware of these results for weeks, but they had an agreement to not disclose them before mid-December (too late now). Maybe that's where much of their confidence comes from:
http://www.quantumheat.org/index.php/follow/169-progress-on-almost-every-front#comment-1010
Celani says they used a "completely different reactor." That's good. I assume that means a different cell configuration that allows some other method of calorimetry.
Yes, he means that they used a different configuration allowing proper calorimetry.
As I and others already suggested, I hope the MFMP will manage to obtain and test more wires at the same time in order to improve the signal/noise ratio and thus making the thermal anomaly visible without the need for sophisticated equipment. Even with 2-layered wires, researchers at STM obtained a power density of 21W/g. I don't know why they haven't done so already - one gram of treated nickel-copper alloy shouldn't be that expensive to prepare, most probably less than the hundreds of hours invested by the MFMP team on this project so far.
Cheers, S.A.
