Unless part of the "reaction" is endothermic and cools its surroundings...
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >
