James, I feel much more comfortable using a calorimeter design I can trust and that has been used in the past. The Cravens device is a nice demonstration but it proves nothing. I have made calorimeters that do the job much better and give absolute values for power. No need exists to reinvent.
Ed Storms On Mar 22, 2014, at 12:27 PM, James Bowery wrote: > If you are running a Cravens style simultaneous, colocated control experiment > with infinite COP your odds of detecting a tiny temperature difference > economically are vastly improved. Basically you just integrate the voltage > out of a bimetallic (thermocoupling) wall separating the treated material > from the untreated material in a common vessel that provides a small amount > of gas communication between the chambers for pressure equalization. This is > not an expensive device. > > > On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Edmund Storms <stor...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > Yes, getting a wide variety of sizes is easy. Getting enough of the right > size in this distribution is the problem. Only a few of the right size will > not give enough energy to be detected. When radiation or tritium is used to > detect the occurrence of LENR, the effect can be seen using fewer active > sites. However, these methods have not been used very often, probably > because the tools and skill are not common. > > Cracks either want to grow larger or sinter and disappear. As a result, > production of LENR is unstable. This makes the effect occur for brief times, > but not long enough to be sure LENR is actually happening rather than a > random event. > > Ed Storms > > On Mar 22, 2014, at 11:28 AM, James Bowery wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Edmund Storms <stor...@ix.netcom.com> >> wrote: >> >> Based on my theory, the active material are nano-cracks. Making these at the >> require size is the challenge. Cracks can be made many different ways, but >> getting the right size is the problem. >> >> Might there be a technique that generates a wide distribution of crack >> sizes? >> > >
