Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > I wish people would start with excess heat, and not go looking for these other things until they confirm it. As Martin Fleischmann said, heat is the principal signature of the reaction. When you have no heat, you probably have no reaction. - Jed
