I would say with 99.98 % confidence that anomalous cooling hints to the calibration error of instruments. There should not be any doubts for that.
Cooling and going against the second law of thermodynamics, however is not that particularly surprising. Entropy decreased at large scale when the universe was just three seconds old. The primordial nucleosynthesis compressed huge amount of energy into protons and alpha particles. This caused entropy to decrease in isolated system. Also in supernovae explosions, entropy decreases when energy is trapped into atoms heavier than Ni-62. Hydrino formation goes also against the second law of thermodynamics and it causes thus the cooling of isolated system, because hydrinos are stable. However as I know that Mills' theory is wrong at fundamental level, this does not do as an explanation. However, hydrinos are interesting thought experiments, because it is trivial to envision logical conditions where the classical second law of thermodynamics will fail in isolated system. Is this then yet another failure for cold fusion, or is it still too early to tell? —Jouni On Jan 28, 2013, at 12:35 AM, Harry Veeder <[email protected]> wrote: > The MFMP results are not looking very good at the moment as excess > heat appears to be marginal or non-existent. However, the data now > suggest the possibility of some slight anomalous cooling effect. I > don't know if this cooling is real or the result some minor > calibration error, but it raises the question of how we estimate > excess power. > > Although we tend to associate excess power with anomalous heating, it > seems to me that a system can exhibit excess power (or over unity) > through either persistent anomalous cooling or persistent anomalous > heating . But what if the system oscillates between periods of > anomalous cooling and anomalous heating? Simply taking a time average > would make the excess power appear to be much less or even > non-existent. > > harry >
