On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>wrote:
> Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> The papers from Harwell and the German group were looking at calorimetry >> and electrochemistry too, if I recall. >> > > Harwell discussed their own calorimetry. It was not a critique of > Fleischmann's. Fleischmann and Melich visited Harwell. The people there > were very open and cooperative. They gave Fleischmann all of their data and > one of their cells to evaluate. By the time he visited the program was > finished and the lab was getting ready to close. > > I do not know what German group you refer to. > > > >> The German group I'm thinking of (there was more than one group in >> Germany) loaded a slab of palladium and set it on a block of wood and >> burned a black mark into the wood, making the point that palladium can get >> quite hot when the hydrogen escapes from it. >> > > Everyone knows that. > > - Jed > > I didn't know that. Was the slab of Pd much larger than the Pd electrode used by P&F? Harry
