Alan Fletcher <[email protected]> wrote:
Where? With Pd?
- 2A. Experiments for a particular batch by a particular experimenter have improved from "some cells show excess heat", to "most cells show excess heat" and recently, to "all cells show excess heat".
Yes -- Pd. eg Celani's recent paper claims 100%. We had a discussion on "100%" back in the 2012 archives. ISTR I found three papers claiming 100% per batch.
- 2B The excess heat can range from barely detectable to equipment-destroying explosions
eg Rossi keeps his COP low so it's controllable. He said that he had a "better" catalyst which was uncontrollable.
OK, so the SRI explosion was probably chemical, but others were probably LENR
I think it is essential to talk about overall energy, not just power. After all, a chemical explosion can destroy the equipment.
You have to say that the overall heat release often exceeds the limits of chemistry in cells with no chemical changes. This is the single most important fact discovered about cold fusion (so far) and the most convincing evidence that it is anomalous, and probably nuclear.
Any description which leaves this out misses the whole point.
Probably need to change 2B
2B The excess heat can range from barely detectable, to exceeding any chemical reaction, to equipment-destroying explosions
Overall, I was trying to keep the language and examples at the "popular science" (not the magazine) level.
(ps : I liked most of your descriptions)
