ok, I did not know he did not know before hand which cell was going to be active.
Harry On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > H Veeder <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Perhaps more care was taken to keep atmospheric gases out during the >> control runs or less care was taken to keep atmospheric gases out during >> the active run. >> > > That is impossible. In most cases there was no way to know ahead of time > what was a control run, and what was an active run. Control runs consisted > of tests with no electrolysis (which he could tell was a control), tests > with hydrogen (which he assumed would produce no heat, but that wasn't a > sure thing), and -- in most cases -- Pd-D tests that failed to produce heat > (which no one could predict). > > In any case, as I said before, there is no way anyone can accidentally or > purposefully leak into the cell just the right amount of helium to make it > equal to plasma fusion helium. Any method would be hundreds to thousands of > times too crude, producing random numbers. The amounts are far smaller than > any instrument could introduce accurately. > > - Jed > >
