On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> There have been hundreds if not thousands of working cells. Where are >> they? >> > > Most of the ones I know of were used up in destructive testing. As Mike > Melich put it, "what we do to these cathodes would make the angels weep." > > F&P sent all of theirs back to Johnson Matthey, and they did not know what > happened to them after that. (That was part of the agreement.) > > The people at the ENEA are compiling an extensive database of the material > characteristics of cathodes they make. I assume they have to use > destructive testing in the end. > > Ohmori had a box full of them. I have no idea what happened to them. > > There are about a thousand used cathodes at the U. Missouri SKINR lab. I > think that is how many they said. Many produced heat. I do not know much > about what they are doing with them. A lot of them fall apart, so they > examine them to figure out why. > > The follow-up analysis of the cathode is as important as the experiment > itself. > > - Jed > > The point being that even if someone did come up with "50 working cells" it wouldn't be adequate "to find a theory".