On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Bob Higgins <rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com> wrote:
I have a few observations that are not being discussed here (and I may be > missing something) from the slides from the MIT Colloquium. > > - *The report for the control experiment with no excess heat also > showed the decline of the M/e=4 species and rise of the M/e=2 &3 species*. > The two curves look qualitatively the same. > - In both experiments (excess heat and control), there appears to be a > loss of total mass of gas vs. time - by almost half in mass across the > experiment. > - Most of the mass loss was lost in the first half of the experiment, > then remaining nearly constant - yet the excess heat continued at about the > same power. It appears that the excess heat does not correlate well with > the loss of total mass of gas. > - The excess heat does not correlate with the amount of M/e=4 species. > - The gas "quantity" (is this a number of particles "quantity"?) grew > across the experiment even though the gas total mass declined. > - The excess heat does seem to correlate with Mizuno's total gas > quantity curve and the M/e=2 curve which look similar. > > These are good points. Note especially your bolded point, about the M/e=2 species increasing in both the excess heat run and the control. Either the control is not a control, or the increase in M/e=2 species is unrelated to the effect being observed. Note also that the maximum reactor temperature shown on slide 30 within the first 10k seconds was 70 C (not very hot). The experiment (including this particular trial?) lasted for a month, so perhaps the temperature increased beyond this later on. This detail is not necessarily indicative of artifact, but it's interesting from a commercialization perspective. Here is the link I have to the slides: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/YoshinoHreplicable.pdf Was a carefully edited writeup of the same experiment made available at some point? I do not think one can conclude much from conference slides. Eric
