-----Original Message----- From: Akira Shirakawa > I haven't asked but as far as I have seen I'm fairly certain that for the control cells they used completely fresh materials.
Well, let's face it - like everyone else in LENR they are severely underfunded. Therefore it is not a given that they would use new nichrome instead of salvaging from previous runs. And it is a big deal if they were showing 4% gain against an active control, instead of much more if nichrome had been fresh. To be clear - I am not saying that there could be a difference, but nichrome is 80% nickel and there is probably four times more Ni-62 in that wire than in the constantan ! Thus - if there is residual hydrogen in the nichrome wire as well, it is very likely to be gainful as a control, possibly strongly gainful - even when run at a vacuum... not to mention the possibility of so-called "spontaneous" hydrogen. Jones
