Jed, Thank you. Yes, that makes much more sense to me now, and would be well above heat produced from absorption.
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Jack Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > > But doesn't hydrogen/deuterium absorption by palladium/nickel produce heat? >> > > A tiny, TINY amount. There is only an itty-bitty amount of Ni (or Pd) in > the whole cell. The excess heat in the last 7 experiments has ranged from > 16 to 4,880 kJ, which far exceed the heat of absorption: > > Input, Output, Excess (kJ) > 212, 301, 89 > 125, 141, 16 > 1,780, 2,970, 1190 > 2,390, 2,964, 574 > 393, 499, 106 > 3,370, 8,250, 4880 > 2,860, 3,180, 320 > > That's a range of 5 to 23 W excess, continuing 18 to 21 hours I think. > That is, 2,390 kJ input = 2,390,000 J/31 W = 77,097 seconds, which is 21 > hours if I haven't once again misplaced an order of magnitude. > > Any heat from absorption would be swamped by the heat from 1000 V AC glow > discharge. It would be in the noise. There is a lot of hot plasma in there. > You can see it in the photos here, taken through the window: > > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MizunoTposterform.pdf > > That's only 31 W but the electrode goes up to ~170°C at that power level > during calibration, and ~270°C with excess heat. The plasma is there most > of the time, except during heat after death. He can goose H.A.D. by adding > a little more hydrogen gas. The heat shows up immediately with a puff of > gas, which it would not do from absorption. Anyway, the nanoparticles are > saturated. > > > I'm not saying this is not LENR. I'm trying to see if there are >> alternative explanations. >> > > The only alternative I can imagine would be a mistake caused by bad > calorimetry. It was pretty bad until he sent me the latest calibrations. It > is now moderately good. > > - Jed > >
