On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Joseph S. Barrera III < [email protected]> wrote:
If I want to try to reproduce it for myself: > > 1. What are the costs to get & set up the equipment? > 2. Where do I find the best set of instructions? > The costs and equipment depend upon what you're looking for and your purpose. Are you looking for a rock-solid replication, or are you looking for something that will be easy to iterate with? Some people try to go with calorimetry. From what I've seen with the Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project, that looks like a steep learning curve, unless for some reason you were to luck out and get a reaction going whose energy balance can be measured with a mercury thermometer. Other claims that can be replicated apart from excess heat are low levels of substrate transmutations, tritium, neutrons, x-rays and (purportedly low levels of) energetic particles. There are different ways of measuring these things -- GM counters, CR-39 chips, neutron counters, EDX, TOF-SIMS, etc. It is clear that EDX and neutron counters are perilous and will not produce anything convincing in the hands of an amateur. As for materials, there are many combinations that people have tried. Some people go for palladium and deuterium, since that's where most of the experience has been. These materials will obviously be expensive. Other materials are nickel and light hydrogen. As for the systems, some of the main ones are electrolysis, gas loading and glow discharge. Electrolysis sounds like a bear and takes you down the path of calorimetry. There are unseen hazards in all of these approaches; in gas loading, for example, there seems to be an initial hydrogen reaction that causes a steep heat transient that people occasionally seem to lump in with a positive LENR result. All of this is to say that you probably want to do some reading and/or asking around before settling on anything. Since you're close to Michael McKubre, he might be a good person to start with. Eric
