Until we see a repeatable / verifiable experiment with a high COP, the only thing that will be meaningless here is LENR.
That being said, what Technova is doing is interesting. They did say however at the end of their slides that further measurement is needed to verify the results. On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Blaze Spinnaker <blazespinna...@gmail.com> wrote: > > That's still a COP of 1.1 from what I can tell. Not quite LENR+ >> > > The concept of a COP (coefficient of production) is meaningless in cold > fusion. Even more so in this experiment than in most others, because the > input power is only used to raise the temperature, and you could do that > equally as well by insulating the thing better. > > A cold fusion is not an amplifier in any sense. It does not transform the > input energy into a new form, the way an electric motor converts > electricity into mechanical force. Therefore "COP" is meaningless the > technical sense. It is used, inaccurately, to mean the ratio of input power > to output power. This ratio is also meaningless. It can easily be changed. > It can be improved, but most of the methods to do so will interfere with > the experiment and reduce the quality of the results. > > - Jed > >
